单词 | wine-bright |
释义 | > as lemmaswine-bright (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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