ppl. a. Also 9 umbred. [f. UMBER sb.3 or v.3 + -ED.] Stained or painted with umber; made of a dark brown color; embrowned, darkened.
In some quots. the sense ‘shadowed, darkened by shade’ (cf. UMBER v.1) is possible.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. Prologue, 9. Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each Battaile sees the others vmber’d face.
1624. Heywood, Captives, II. ii., in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Fayre flesh and cleane they bothe appeare And not like gypsies umber’d.
1716. Pope, Iliad, VIII. 706. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber’d arms, by fits, thick flashes send.
1805–6. Cary, Dante, Inf., III. 110. Thus go they over through the umber’d wave.
1813. Scott, Trierm., I. x. Amid whose yawning gulfs the sun Cast umber’d radiance red and dun.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., xi. (1891), 154. The bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.
1877. Mallock, New Republic, V. i. II. 232. A circular domed temple of umbred marble.
