| 单词 | blackish-brown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackish-brown Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as blackish-brown, blackish-red, blackish-yellow, etc. ΚΠ ?1562 W. Ward tr. R. Roussat Most Excellent Bk. Doctour & Astrologien Arcandam sig. P.vi They that haue in theyr Eyes a blackyshe Whyte, are commonly great Personages. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 519 His beast..being of a blackish dusky colour. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. xv. 580 The fruit..is..of a blackish red colour. 1785 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) ii. 58 My Habit is..Pitch coulour —a sort of blackish green. 1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 65 Tinged with a dark blackish-brown colour. 1837 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 22 7 By dry distillation I obtained..a blackish-grey sublimate. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 254 When the corresponding sulphide..is roasted, this oxide remains as a blackish-blue powder. 1919 Auk Oct. 553 Forehead between metallic fluorite violet and blackish violet, shading to blackish purple. 1998 J. Shepley tr. M. R. Stern Story Tönle iv. 67 The ugliness and repulsion of that blackish yellow smoke. 2000 S. Raichlen Barbecue Bible 18 A blackish-brown or blackish-pink salt with a smoky, almost sulfurous flavor. < as lemmas |
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