| 单词 | blue and buff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue and buff a. Buff colour; a dull light yellow. blue and buff were formerly the colours of the Whig party. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > brownish yellow fallowa1425 ochre1440 Minozin1680 fulvidness1685 satinwood1773 buff1788 nankeen1794 mountain yellow1801 chamois1872 mustard1884 oliveness1890 Sahara1923 1788 C. Dibdin Musical Tour xcvi. 394 The administration is a colour in grain, and will stand when buff and blue shall have entirely flown off. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiv. 213 [The water melon's] colour is..partly a very pale buff. a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 108 I still retain my ‘buff and blue’. 1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 349/2 A gradation of buffs and reds. 1888 N.E.D. at Buff Mod. The Edinburgh Review—the venerable blue-and-buff. < as lemmas |
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