Meaning and background
The story behind Umber
Umber belongs to an artist's colour vocabulary: raw umber is an earthy yellow-brown pigment, while burnt umber has a warmer reddish-brown appearance. It also survives as an old term for shade in some regional English usages. Collins traces the pigment name through French or Italian words for shadow or shaded earth, though the possible role of the Italian region Umbria complicates the history. As a dog name it is primarily a colour reference.
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