| 单词 | wine-black | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswine-black  (c)   With reference to the colour of wine, as  wine colour noun, and predicatively as adjective,  wine tint;  wine-black,  wine-bright,  wine-coloured,  wine-red adjs.,  wine-yellow (after German weingelb) adj., also as n.;  wine-tint vb. ΚΠ 1805    T. Weaver tr.  A. G. Werner Treat. Fossils 57  				Wine~yellow is a pale reddish-yellow colour. 1831    D. Brewster Treat. Optics xliii. 369  				All achromatic telescopes..exhibit the secondary colours, viz. the wine-coloured and the green fringes. 1838    T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 402  				The wine-red substance which remains in solution in the carbonate of ammonia. 1842    Johnston in  Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 10. 36  				The foot of the snail is a wine-yellow. 1855    H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI.  xiv. x. 606  				In the East, the Christ is..of delicate complexion, dark beard (it is sometimes called wine-coloured beard). 1857    W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. 		(1862)	 viii. 621  				A wine-red amorphous precipitate. 1863    T. W. Higginson Army Life 		(1870)	 57  				He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, wine-black. 1876    A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 114  				His wine-bright waves. 1876    Encycl. Brit. IV. 644/2  				Cairngorm,..a wine-yellow or brown variety of rock-crystal. 1893    Daily News 14 Feb. 2/3  				Wine tints. 1895    S. Crane Red Badge of Courage iii. 32  				A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of the river. 1902    R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise xxii. 381  				The twigs on the peach-trees had turned wine-colour. < as lemmas | 
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