bister

1 The sun is setting fast. The colors die. They shift from purple to dried blood, from nacre to bister, from cool dead grays to pigeon shit.

太阳很快要落下去了，天空中的色彩也消失了，紫色变成干血色，青贝色变成褐色，黯淡的灰色变成鸽粪色。

2 She was gloriously beautiful, too; even her brief experience in the west had brought back the missing roses to her cheek, and had banished the bister circles from beneath her eyes.

3 L. Boyer, 5 groups, 11 shades: White to cream yellow; pale pink to ochraceous yellow; bay or red brown to brown or blackish bister; rust color, cinnamon or light yellow.

4 Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.

5 Then he observed the frightful irritation of the breasts and mouth, discovered spots of bister and copper on the skin of her body, and recoiled bewildered.

6 And now a vast, open plain was seen to be spreading away, away to indeterminable distances; a plain the further limits of which veiled themselves in bister and dull ocher vapors.

7 She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.

1 黄褐色

olive tan drab tawny russet sienna terracotta ocher

2 深褐色

bistered chocolate sepia coffee-colored coffee Eskimo bitumen