mummy brown
/ˌmʌmi ˈbɹaʊn/noun
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1
A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
2
The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw umber and burnt umber.
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