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单词 red man
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red mann.

Brit. /ˈrɛd ˌman/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈmæn/
Inflections: Plural red men;
Forms: see red adj. and n. and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., man n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + man n.1With sense 1 compare white woman n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f and similarly white wife (see e.g. quots. a1550, 1709, 1835 at sense 1). With sense 2a compare French homme rouge (1725 or earlier in this sense), and e.g. Natchez toM ha·kup , lit. ‘red man’ (1873 as tvmh hakup ), Creek isti-cháati , lit. ‘red person’ (1738 or earlier), both with reference to American Indians; compare the discussion at redskin n. With sense 2b compare quot. 1892 at Red Indian n. 2. In sense 3a after South African Dutch rooiman (see roman n.3 1); in sense 3b after Afrikaans rooiman (see roman n.3 2). In sense 4 so called on account of its red colour.
1. Alchemy. A substance regarded as the male principle or parent of metals, usually identified with sulphur (cf. sulphur n. 2a). Now historical.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [noun]
elementa1300
spirita1393
bodya1398
originalsc1484
red mana1500
principlea1550
principium1684
a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 489 (MED) Take one rede man.
a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 53 (MED) They talke of the red man & his whit wiffe.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Red man, and your white woman; With all your Broathes, your Menstrues [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1709 E. Philalethes True Light Alchymy ii. 65 Of the Red-Man one, of his White Wife three Thou take, and mix (which is a good proportion).
1835 J. Anster in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faustus 392 (note) In almost every one of these recipes for preparing the elixir, this marriage between the red man and the white wife is mentioned.
1926 A. E. Waite Secret Trad. in Alchemy xiv. 208 A Recapitulation at the end affirms that ‘our Red Man’ and his wife do not tinge until they have been tinged themselves.
2000 D. Tyson Sexual Alchemy v. 78 The ‘red man’ and the ‘white woman’ are sulfur and quicksilver, respectively.
2.
a. A North American Indian. Also (with the): North American Indians collectively. Now historical.Now generally considered offensive.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [noun]
Indian1553
American1568
Native Americana1628
native1636
American Native1648
American Indian1650
Injun1666
Canada Indian1688
red man1740
North American Indian1748
redskinc1769
buckskin1783
Red Indian1788
red1795
North American1825
copperhead1838
neechee1850
Lo1871
Amerind1899
Amerindian1899
1740 J. Wesley Extract Jrnl. 28 We believe the Souls of Red Men walk up and down near the Place where they died.
1744 Vaudreuil in Pres. State Louisiana 37 The English..aimed at nothing so much as the Destruction of the red Men.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 187 The Indian or the Red Man seems to have been the most ancient, or the original man of America.
1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 187 The fancied superiority of the red men has been exploded ever since the settlement of emigrants from Europe along the frontiers.
1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish vii. 42 Ready to be let loose, and destroy his brother the red man.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 477 A few scattered tribes of red-men.
1941 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 28 377 The red men resented the intrusion of the American white men on their hunting grounds.
2003 S. M. O'Brien In Bitterness & in Tears xiv. 153 Although some of their officers attempted to stop them, the white soldiers had taken out their hatred of all red men on the Cherokees.
b. = Beothuk n. 1.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun]
mountainer1625
Montagnais1654
mountaineer1703
Cree1760
Mistassini1781
Muskego1785
Red Indian1796
Chipewyan1801
Beothuk1828
red man1842
Naskapi1849
1842 R. H. Bonnycastle Newfoundland II. xiv. 252 These were, very possibly, the poor disinherited Red Men, who, it had been the disgraceful practice of the ruder hunters, furriers, and settlers in Newfoundland, to hunt, fire at, and slaughter, wherever they could find them.
1892 Trans. Royal Soc. Canad. 9 124 The name Red Indian..is the translation of the Micmac name,..Maquajik, which means red men or red people.
1955 L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland 9/2 They [sc. Beothuks] were described as of ordinary height—yet there are recorded instances of giant Red Men of seven feet in stature.
1996 New Scientist (Nexis) 10 Feb. 3030 Their practice of painting faces and limbs..with crimson-coloured ochre inspired the now common epithet Red Man.
3. South African.
a. The Roman sea bream, Chrysoblephys laticeps; = roman n.3 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Chrysoblephus
stompneus1705
roman1790
red man1798
dageraad1853
1798 S. H. Wilcocke in tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. ii. 34 (note) A kind of red fish, named roómans or red men, by the inhabitants of the Cape.
b. A large nocturnal sun spider; = roman n.3 2. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Solpugida > member of
solpugid1869
sun spider1898
roman1905
wind-scorpion1912
solifugid1925
solifuge1935
wind-spider1959
red man1966
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiv. 235 The Red Men come into the house at night... Of medium size—perhaps three inches with the legs fully spread..orange-red, hairy, fast, with great snapping beak-like jaws which, most horrifyingly, they can move at the same time up and down and from side to side.
4. Caribbean. A red-coloured squirrelfish (family Holocentridae) of the Virgin Islands, esp. the common Holocentrus adscensionis. Also red man fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Beryciformes > member of family Holocentridae (soldier-fish)
squirrel1735
squirrel-fish1803
soldier-fish1882
red man1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Redman,..a holocentroid fish, Holocentrus ascensionis, of a brilliant reddish color. (St. Thomas, W.I.)
1951 S. Murray Compl. Handbk. Virgin Islands 122 (table) Redman fish.
1981 L. Valls What Pistarckle! 104/1 Red man, squirrelfish (Holocentrus).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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