| 单词 | yellow earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow earth yellow earth n. (a) any of various earthy materials, esp. pigments, of a yellow colour; yellow ochre; a yellowish variety of bole; (b) a yellowish loess occurring in northern China. [In sense (b) after Chinese huánɡtǔ loess (already in Old Chinese; < huánɡ yellow + tǔ earth, soil).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > earthy mineral yellow earth1552 glebe1577 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > bole > type of terra chia1615 Turkey earth1748 yellow earth1794 rock soap1803 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Yellow earth founde in the mynes of golde or syluer, sandaraca. 1662 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry I. ii. ii. ix. 229 The Balsoms of Oyls of Roots and aromatical Substances are coloured with yellow Earth, when they come near that colour in their nature. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 194 This yellow earth differs from ochres only in containing a greater proportion of argill. 1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 706 The Yellow Sea, in which name we again recognize the coloration given by the particles of the loess, which itself is called by the Chinese hwang-tu or yellow earth. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 425/1 Bole..Stolpenite, Rock Soap, Plinthite, Yellow Earth or Felinite, Fetbol, and Ochran are varieties. 1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. i. 33 Loess, better known to us by the name ‘yellow earth’, is a fine-grained rock or soil which covers most of north-west China like a blanket. 2002 Guardian 26 Jan. (Saturday section) 8/7 Its lighter part is underpainted with red and yellow earths mixed with bone black and lead white. < as lemmas |
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