Color Names

Western Clay

Dusty, sun-baked earth, like the dry riverbeds of the American West.

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Western Clay is a warm grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

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Western Clay

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

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western

Adjective

  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
  2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.

Noun

  1. (Should we move, merge or split this sense?) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
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clay

Noun

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

  1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
  2. To purify using clay.
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