a reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries 棕褐色 ■a brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in watercolours 乌贼墨颜料 ■[count noun]a drawing done with this pigment 乌贼墨颜料画 ■a blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish as a defensive screen 乌贼分泌的墨汁
adjective
of a reddish-brown colour 棕褐色的 old sepia photographs. 棕褐色的老照片。
语源
late Middle English (denoting a cuttlefish): via Latin from Greek sēpia 'cuttlefish'. The current senses date from the early 19th cent