| 单词 | red earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred earth red earth n. earth or soil that is red in colour; spec. (a) red ochre, ruddle (now rare); (b) a red soil occurring in tropical and subtropical regions, typically clayey and highly leached, and coloured by iron; cf. red loam n., laterite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > red or leached soil red eartheOE red landc1250 minium1613 Armenian bole1621 red loam1707 red soil1817 terra rossa1882 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > earths as colouring matter red stoneeOE red eartheOE redding1292 raddlea1350 ruddle1353 rubric?1440 red ochre1481 sinoper1501 red1538 red chalk1538 sinople1548 terra sigillata1563 almagre1598 majolica1598 minium1613 orell1614 reddle1648 India red1668 Indian red1672 riddle1681 smit1728 Persian earth1735 red marl1748 abraum1753 Terra Sienna1760 tivera1825 kokowai1836 sinopia1844 sinopis1857 eOEReadan eorþan [see sense A. 1d]. lOE Aldhelm Glosses (Auct. F.2.14) in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 187/1 Glarea : read eorðe. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. lxxxviii. sig. M ii Sardius is a precious stone of red colour as it were red erth. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 298 Tiles made of red earth..must be..set on fire with unsmoking coles. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 545 Take ruddle or red-earth tempered wel with the lees or grounds of oile. 1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 913 In Ramulconeta Mines in red Earth, about 15 or 16 foot deep, they seldom find a Diamond of a mangelleen weight. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4202/3 Red-Earth, lower'd to 4s. per C. 1765 J. Bartram Diary 22 Sept. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 28/2 Ye first..strata is A great depth of A very tenatious ash[-]colored cream or red earth. 1861 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 280/1 They helped him into a boat, and put red earth, moistened with water, round his neck and nostrils. 1889 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 52. 25 The red earth of the southern portion of the Great Appalachian Valley is apparently identical..with the ‘terra rossa’ of southern Europe, the ‘laterite’ of India, and the ‘red earth’ of Bermuda. 1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart xxv. 184 The only opening into this bush from the compound was a little round hole in the red-earth wall through which fowls went in and out. 1996 N. Maraire Zenzele ix. 164 It was from the red earth of the veld that the richness and beauty of Zimbabwe grew. 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 137 The ‘raddle’ (red earth) purveyed by raddlemen like Diggory Venn of The Return of the Native. < as lemmas |
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