Etymology

Noun

1. The cuttlefish.
2. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
3. (colour) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

4. A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.

Quotations

• 1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 209

  Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

See also

• black and white
• color
• cuttlefish
• ink sac
• Appendix:Colours