| 单词 | judas colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJudas colour Judas colour n. [from the medieval popular tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair; compare earlier Judas-coloured adj.] now rare red, as the colour of a person's hair or beard; (sometimes) yellowish red. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red redc1275 auburn1591 Abraham?1592 sorrel1600 Abram1602 sandy-coloured1661 carrot1671 carrot-coloured1684 Judas colour1695 carroty1696 sandy1734 gingery1844 Titian1863 gingerous1864 the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > specific colour Judas colour1695 1602 Kyd's Spanish Trag. (new ed.) iii. sig. H4 And let their beardes be of Iudas his owne collour. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 7 Ros. His very haire Is of the dissembling colour. Cel. Something browner then Iudasses. View more context for this quotation] 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 124 Observations on the Judas-colour of his Beard and Hair [Fr. son Temperament, ses Mœurs, ses Paroles, & ses Actions ne démentent en rien les Attributs ordinaires au Poil Iscariote de sa Barbe & de ses Cheveux]. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 124/2 Here is a bush for you, of right English growth... It is of the Judas colour too. 1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 280 Thin, coarse, straggling hair of a yellow cast, (what was formerly called Judas-colour). 1890 C. C. Lathrop Secret Instit. iv. 34 A woman..with..most peculiar hair,—what I should call ‘Judas color’—not sandy, hardly red, but a something approaching an unnatural yellowish red. 1998 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 19 Jan. 11 With her ginger hair (the Judas colour) and red slash of a mouth, and that high-pitched voice. < as lemmas |
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