| 单词 | saffron colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaffron colour a. simple attributive, as saffron bulb n., saffron colour n., saffron flower n., saffron head n., saffron-kiln n., saffron ointment n., saffron yellow adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > reddish yellow saffrona1382 saffron coloura1398 saffron yellowa1398 reddish-yellow1530 orange-yellow1825 madder yellow1836 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xli. 934 Crocomagma is ycleped þe superfluyte of spicery of þe whiche saffron oignement is ymade. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xvi. 1288 Saffrin colour dyeþ and coloureþ humours and liquours more þan cytryne. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 545 Now saffron bulbes beth to sette or sowe. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Saffron-kiln, a Kiln to dry Saffron with. 1729 J. Douglass in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 572 To take up the Saffron Heads. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 2 Wings..above deep saffron yellow. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars viii. 108 A little bunch of faded saffron-flower. 1970 A. L. Simon & R. Howe Dict. Gastron. 332/1 The English town of Saffron Walden was an important producer [of saffron] and its town arms still have three saffron flowers pictured within the turreted walls. < as lemmas |
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