Ombré

Ombre /ämbər/ or less used "ombré" means shading or shadow. The word is applied primarily in this article to describe the gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. The word's mispronunciation and misuse among as "ombré" (used in the title of this article) comes from the confusion of the English and French word for shadows or shading "ombre" (without the accented "e") with the word "hombre", which is a false cognate, a word that actually means "man" in Spanish. The word correctly pronounced rhymes with the English word "somber" /sämbər/.