fire-redadj.n.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiv. 49 He shal take..fijr red silc [altered from vermycle; L. vermiculum].

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 626 A Somonour..That hadde a fyr reed Cherubynnes face.

?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. Sig. H.iij Mutch of this people haue their whole faces fire red with continuall quaffing & carousing.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 154 People borne with eies like owles, whereof the sight is fire red.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiv. 300 Iron, boyld In fire-red furnaces.

1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal. Soc.) 12 898 The Crevisses of the Rocks where the Damp kept, were all about fire-red Candlemas day following.

1747 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IV. 155/1 The Porcelain baked in the small Oven, is fit to take-out, if on Inspection they find, that all the Ware appears fire-red to the Bottom.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. x. i. 43 The finest fire-red fox skins were never sold higher on the spot than at 130 to 180 kopeeks.

1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Nov. 473 Pan at her presence felt his nimbus turn Fire-red, like clouds around the sinking sun.

1896 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 356 Cotton-velvet westcot, fire-red and yaller squares.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 98 The fire-red windows.

1970 W. Henry Spanking & Bondage iv. 93 The spanking..will go on for up to five minutes. By the time the hair-brushing comes to a halt, he is fire red down to his stockings.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 25 Greasy, wonderful, fire-red chorizo sausages.

1798 tr. L. Spallanzani Trav. Two Sicilies III. xvii. 35 In the recent fractures they shine with much more brilliant colours. The most conspicuous are the golden-yellow, and the fine grass-green, with which, sometimes, is mixed a fire-red [It. rosso del fuoco].

1894 Art Interchange Mar. 71/3 Pompeian red is what is generally thought of when a strong, fire red is required.

1921 Print Connoisseur June 350 All sorts of animals painted in pleasing fire-reds, whites, golden yellows.

1955 H. 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.

1959 Ebony Dec. 82/1 (advt,) Part cap—part beret... It comes in Fire Red, Oxford Gray, Cocoa Brown, Jet Black, and Navy.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: 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.

2013 Teddy Bear Times Apr. 26/1 I chose a pattern and some faux fur in fire red.