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...1895, George MacDonald, Lilith:
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Dated Of a dark or inky colour, often in reference to skin pigmentation.
Randomly selecting a fruit fly with sepian (dark brown) eyes2010, Mario F. Triola, Elementary Statistics Technology Update, 11th revised edition of Elementary Statistics, published 2012, →ISBN, page 157:
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US, Dated Belonging to or pertaining to black Americans or African Americans, who typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Nineteenth century sepian musicals included Sam T. Jack's "Creoles" -1890...1941, Who is who in Music, Berghan Publishing Company, page 37:
sepian
noun
Etymology From sepia + -n.
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US, Capitalized, Dated, Sometimes A black American or African American.
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.2014 [1959], Judith E. Smith, Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 187: