单词 | outblush |
释义 | outblushv. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. transitive. To outdo in blushing, to surpass in rosy colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > surpass in redness [verb (transitive)] outblusha1625 out-red1648 outflush1870 a1625 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey (1647) i. i. 4 And bid the coy wench put on all her beauties, All her enticements, out-blush damask roses. 1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) ii. 136 Perhaps not the chast Morne, her selfe disclose Againe, t' out blush th' æmulous rose. 1678 T. Shipman Henry III of France ii. ii. 23 Each Rose did in native Scarlet appear; Yet every Rose was outblush'd by her. 1703 N. Tate Portrait-royal 5 The modest Matron..Out-blush'd her own Vermilion Dye. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lxii. 238 Cold and withered are those lips that swelled with love, and far out-blushed the damask rose! 1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes lxvi. 28 Not more the rose, the queen of flowers, Outblushes all the glow of bowers. a1871 P. Cary in A. Cary & P. Cary Poet. Wks. (1877) 361/2 And then her face will flush and glow, With a hopeful, happy red; Outblushing all the flowers that grow Anear in the garden-bed. 1914 W. S. Blunt Days of our Youth in Poet. Wks. I. v. 188 Let me outshame the shame of thy face, outblush thy blushes. 1988 Time (Nexis) 19 Sept. 48 Jackie..favors lipstick shades that outblush fire engines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1625 |
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