"ochrous" meaning in English

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          "text": "Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.",
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          "ref": "1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:",
          "text": "[…] they looked around for a refreshment tent among the many which dotted the down. Two, which stood nearest to them in the ochreous haze of expiring sunlight, seemed almost equally inviting.",
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          "ref": "1949, Henry Miller, chapter 23, in The Rosy Crucifixion, Book One: Sexus, New York: Grove Press, published 1965, page 498:",
          "text": "The Lutheran Church across the way, which in the daylight was the color of baby shit, had now taken on a soft ochrous hue which blended serenely with the black of the asphalt.",
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          "ref": "1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 179:",
          "text": "It was a Saturday, one of those dusty, ocherous autumnal days whose vivid weather never again seems so sweet and inviting after that youthful time of discovery [...].",
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        "Ochre-coloured; brownish-yellow."
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