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‖ feuillemorte, a.|fœjmɔrt|
More commonly in anglicized and corrupted forms: see filemot.
[Fr.; lit. ‘dead leaf’.]
Of the colour of a dead or faded leaf, brown or yellowish brown.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. xi. (ed. 3) 294 To make a Country-man understand what Feuillemorte Colour signifies. 1876Ouida Winter City ii. 22 She had feuille morte velvet slashed with the palest of ambers.
b. Comb., as feuillemorte-coloured adj.
1840H. Ainsworth Tower of London ix, An ample feuillemorte coloured cloak. |