单词 | wine-red |
释义 | > as lemmaswine-red (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. wine-red c. Instrumental, as winebig, wine-crowned, wine-drabbled, wine-drenched, wine-driven, wine-ensanguined, wine-fizzling, wine-flushed, †wine-heat, wine-heated, wine-heavy, wine-inspired, wine-shaken, wine-stained, wine-stuffed, wine-warm; also wine-hardy, wine-red, wine-wise adjs. ΚΠ OE Judith 71 Wiggend stopan ut of ðam inne ofstum miclum, weras winsade. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Idele lehtres and winrede bruwes [at drinche]. ?1562 Jacke Jugeler sig. C.iv Wine shakine pylorye picpours. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 405 His wine-stuft stomack wrung with wind he feeles. 1611 J. Davies Commend. Poems in Wks. (Grosart) II. 15/1 Their wine-driv'n brains, involv'd in follie's cloud. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) iii. 200 Their wine-heat bloud. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xviii. 481 For feare can get no state In your wine-hardy stomacke. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe i. v, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn2/2 The Gent. is wine wise. 1677 A. Behn Rover ii. i. 18 The Wine Inspir'd Bullies of the Town. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 242 The playful exuberance of their wine-inspired fancies. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. i. 30 Such a wine-drabbled divinity. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 64 Wine-heated from the feast. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason v. 96 A wine-crowned golden cup. 1897 W. B. Yeats Secret Rose 2 The old and foolish king..snored fitfully in a wine-heavy sleep. 1899 W. B. Yeats Wind among Reeds 49 Dwelt among wine-stained wanderers in deep woods. 1912 E. Pound Ripostes 26 Wealthy and wine~flushed. 1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 2 Those wine-drenched eyes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 243 John Henry Menton..stared from winebig oyster eyes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 406 Come on, you winefizzling..existences! 1925 H. Acton in Oxf. Poetry 4 And we had thought to fashion of our joy Round crackling pearls to pelt our wine-drenched loves. 1928 W. B. Yeats tr. Sophocles King Oedipus 6 And Bacchus' wine-ensanguined face that all the Maenads sing. 1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit vi. 65 When cypresses jetted like fountains of wine-warm air. 1964 J. Michie tr. Horace Odes i. vii. 33 Set on his wine-flushed brow brave garlands of poplar. 1983 J. Masters Man of War xxiii. 299 A Michelin map spread out on the wine-stained..table. < as lemmas |
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