• Japanese: セピア色 (sepiairo)

• Japanese: セピア画 (sepiaga)

Adjective

1. (colour) Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

Quotations

• 1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 209

  Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

Translations

Related terms

• sepiolite

See also

• black and white
• color
• cuttlefish
• ink sac

Latin

Etymology

From σηπία

Noun

1. a cuttlefish

Inflection

Synonyms

• sense cuttlefish lōlīgō

Descendants

• English: sepia

Sepia may refer to:

• Sepia (color), the color sepia, a shade of brown
• Sepia tone, a type of photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown
• Sepia, African-American (see section below)

Science and technology

• Adair sepia, a type of limestone found in Ontario, Canada
• "Osso di Sepia", nickname for the Alfa Romeo Spider in Italian
  • Sepia (dye), cuttlefish ink, formerly an important dye; regaining favour as the techelet dye on Jewish Tallit strings
  • Sepia (genus), a genus of cuttlefish encompassing some of the best known and most common species
  • Sepia (subgenus), a subgenus of cuttlefish containing around 25 recognised species
• Sepia, one of a series of forty nuclear tests, part of U.S. Operation Flintlock
• Sepia-capped Flycatcher, a species of Tyrant flycatcher, a large family of passerine birds
• Sepia Short-tailed Opossum, a species of Short-tailed opossum
• Sepia stingray, a species of Round ray

Arts and entertainment

African-American references

• "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player", billing for Gladys Bentley (1907-1960), a famous butch lesbian African-American blues singer
• Sepia (magazine), former black-owned photo-journalistic magazine which featured articles on African American achievements
• "Sepia Mae West", nickname for Ida Cox (1890-1967), popular African American singer
• "Sepia Series" (aka 8000 Series), launched in 1941, a Decca (US) 78 record designation for African-American artists considered to have the "crossover potential" to sell in both the black and white markets

Computer games

• R-352 Sepia, type of spacecraft from Ace Combat 3 in the Ace Combat series of games
• Sepia, small spider-like Akrids in the video game Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
• Sepia Wind, an autumn-themed golf course from the online multiplayer casual golf simulation game PangYa (aka Super Swing Golf)

Japanese anime, manga, and TV series

• "Memory in Sepia", episode from the manga TV series The Wallflower
• Sepia, a character in the sci-fi anime Fight! Iczer One
• Sepia (manga), a manga by Japanese mangaka Knife Senno
• Sepia Colored Portrait, an episode from the horror anime series Vampire Princess Miyu
• Sepia Triangle, episode from romance anime Canvas 2 ~Niji Iro no Sketch~
• Shinesman Sepia, character from Japanese anime Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman

Literature

• Black and Sepia, a poem by British poet Eleanor Murray
• Portrait in Sepia (2000), a novel by Isabel Allende
• The Sepia Postcard, a short story from The Barnum Museum; a 1990 short story collection by Steven Millhauser

Music

• Sepia (song)
  • Sepia (song), a song by the Manic Street Preachers
  • Sepia, a song on Perfecto Presents Ibiza; a remix album by Paul Oakenfold
  • Sepia, a song by Edward Ka-Spel on the 2006 Brainwaves (compilation)
• "Sepia Panorama", a track by Duke Ellington on The Blanton–Webster Band CD set
• Sepia Tonality, 1994 solo recording by Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
• The Sepia Coloured Photo (Porco Rosso), a track from Eminence Symphony Orchestra's 2003 A Night in Fantasia album

Painters & artists

• Sepia period, a period in the lifetime of impressionist painter Armando Reverón
• 'Sepia Style', signature style of Australian artist Ian Stephens

Business

• Café Sepia, a line of bottled coffee that contains sugar and milk produced by Ito en, a Japanese beverage company

Other

• Sepia Mutiny, a blog begun by a number of South Asian American bloggers in 2004

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