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rust-coloured, a. [rust n. 9 a.] Having the reddish colour of rust.
1692Boyle Hist. of Air 227 These stones, which when the ground was newly turned up, were rust-coloured. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Passer, The..field sparrow of Aldrovand..is of a dusky rust-coloured brown. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 408 Beside another streamlet, whose deep rust-coloured scum gives token of a chalybeate spring. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 128 Intervals in the rust-coloured line on the dorsal. |