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fire-red, a. and n.
[f. as prec. + red a. Cf. MHG. viurrot.]
A. adj. Red like fire. Also, reddened by fire.
1382Wyclif Lev. xiv. 49 He shal take..fier reed silk. c1386Chaucer Prol. 624 A Sompnour..That hadde a fire⁓red cherubinnes face. 1601Holland Pliny I. 154 People borne with eies like owles, whereof the sight is fire red. 1626Sandys tr. Ovid's Met. xiv. 779 Iron, boyld In fire-red furnaces. 1896‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 356 Cotton⁓velvet westcot, fire-red and yaller squares. 1931V. Woolf Waves 98 The fire-red windows.
B. n. A commercial name for a brilliant red monoazo pigment characterized by strong resistance to oil and light.
1955H. A. Lubs Chem. Synthetic Dyes & Pigments xi. 633 Aktien Gesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation (AGFA) disclosed that replacement of p-nitroaniline by 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline..gave the product (12), Fire Red. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes vii. 269 Para reds, and Fire reds are quite ‘dirty’ in color, are semi-transparent and used mostly in poster and label inks. |