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ox-blood|ˈɒksblʌd|
[f. ox + blood.]
The blood of the ox; a colour resembling this; also used attrib. or as adj., spec. of a colour of opals, of porcelain, and of leather.
1705Whole Art of Dying ii. 53 Ox-blood Colour. First Tinge the Stuffs Yellow,..and work them till they are sufficiently beautiful, then..put into the Kettle a Tub of stale Urine, and boil it again till they take the Dye. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 350 Feed them with Ox-Blood. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 194b/3 Men's Hard Cash Lace, best Russia Calf, latest Ox Blood (dark wine) color. 1936Burlington Mag. Jan. 10/2 The splendid ox-blood and peach bloom reds of the Ch'ing dynasty. 1937D. Jones In Parenthesis 118 You feel the pack of the Ox-blood Kid—it's as light as the Reg'mentals—there's a whole lot of them that work it. 1941‘Brahms’ & ‘Simon’ No Bed for Bacon ii. 37 It was Elizabeth of England in ivory and ox blood. 1950H. McCloy Through Glass, Darkly i. 5 A bowl of ox blood porcelain. 1950C. Fry Venus Observed ii. i. 34 Umber, bronze and brass, ox-blood, damson, Crimson, scalding scarlet. 1967S. Lloyd Lightning Ridge Bk. 24 In the reds, miners describe colour as ‘ox blood’, ‘pidgeon's blood’, ‘port wine red’, and so on. 1968Listener 27 June 825/1 One of the occupants.. was wearing ‘ski pants and ox-blood-coloured shoes’. 1968D. Torr Treason Line 69 He..walked over to the Chinese vases in the window. He put one vase with an ox-blood glaze..into the window on the left. 1971J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 32 Ox blood,..name given to the deepest of the red-coloured opals. 1974‘G. Black’ Golden Cockatrice x. 163, I got another vase..imitation ox blood. 1975T. Stoppard Travesties i. 27, I think to match the carnation, oxblood shot-silk cravat. |