sepian
/ˈsiːpiən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Belonging to or pertaining to black Americans or African Americans, who typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
American usage; Dated
Example Sentences
- "He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness..."
- "Randomly selecting a fruit fly with sepian (dark brown) eyes"
- "Nineteenth century sepian musicals included Sam T. Jack's "Creoles" -1890..."
- "Chicago Defender columnists forewarned viewers that despite [The World, the Flesh and the Devil's] marketing as the "first interracial romance between male Sepian and non-Sepian female star," the only personal contact between Belafonte and Stevens occurs during the haircut scene and when she takes his hand."
Etymology
From sepia + -n.