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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- "rich brown pigment," 1821, from It. seppia "cuttlefish" (borrowed with that meaning in English by 1560s), from L. sepia "cuttlefish," from Gk. sepia, related to sepein "to make rotten" (cf. sepsis). The color was that of brown paint or ink prepared from the fluid secretions of the cuttlefish. Meaning "a sepia drawing" is recorded from 1863.
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