sepia

A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.

Sepia had some use in ancient times as a writing ink, and in modern times has has occasionally been used as a pigment, but it never attained any popularity, as it is extremely fugitive.

A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.

A cuttlefish.

Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

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.