red-ochre

Updated: September 3, 2025

The company are now promenading outside in all the dignity of wigs, spangles, red-ochre, and whitening. See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who personates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the principal tragedian gazes on the crowd below, or converses confidentially with the harlequin!

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people