单词 | reddish-brown |
释义 | > as lemmasreddish-brown C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as reddish-blue, reddish-brown, reddish-purple, reddish-violet, reddish-yellow, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > reddish yellow saffrona1382 saffron coloura1398 saffron yellowa1398 reddish-yellow1530 orange-yellow1825 madder yellow1836 the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown russet1422 red-brown?a1450 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1530 mordoré1791 alezan1820 mahogany1822 henna1911 teak1934 the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown russet1428 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1534 berry-brown1575 sored1587 russetish1600 Chelidonian1601 weaselled-coloured1607 deer-coloured1611 spadiceous1646 russeted1654 testaceous1688 russety1697 mahoganya1744 red-brown1786 reddy-brown1845 fusco-testaceous1847 mahogany-brown1881 persimmon1897 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xii. 9 Yf the rysynge of the sore be reddyshwhite in his baulde heade or foreheade..then he is a leper. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. li. 93 Many times there are of seuerall colours vpon one tree, some being a light green, others Yelow, & some a reddish green. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole l. 518 The scales..are eyther of a reddish browne, whitish, or greenish colour. 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §ii, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A reddish bay [horse]; Rabicàno. 1686 W. King in Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 953 The reddish black colour of the turf. a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 226 Internally the Colour is a reddish brown. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 53 A dirty reddish yellow. 1781 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 5744/1 Terminated by a long spike of reddish-purple flowers. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xiv. 115 Of a dull reddish-white colour. 1856 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1855: Agric. 273 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VI The Red-striped [sugar] cane,..and the Violet or Reddish-violet, which is only a variation from the former,..will generally prosper..[in] the Southern States. 1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xi. 168 The resultant tint would always have been a reddish-grey. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) iv. 124 It is spontaneously combustible, and burns with a brilliant reddish-blue flame. 1966 C. Siragusa & R. Wiedrich Trail of Poppy i. 28 Low rock formations began to rise ahead from the desert floor, reddish pink in the early sunlight. 1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xlv. 557/2 Bronze is a reddish-gold alloy of copper and tin. < as lemmas |
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