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单词 isabella
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Isabellaadj.n.

/ɪzəˈbɛlə/
Forms: Also 1600s iz-.
Etymology: < the female name Isabella, French Isabelle.
1. Greyish yellow; light buff. Like other colour names, also used as n.(Various stories have been put forth to account for the name. That given in D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (Article Anecdotes of Fashion), and also in Littré, associating it with the archduchess Isabella and the siege of Ostend 1601–4, is shown by quot. 1600 to be chronologically impossible.)
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > greyish yellow
Isabella1600
Isabel1828
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > greyish yellow
Isabella1600
Isabella-coloured1681
isabelline1859
fauchie1911
1600 Inv. Queen's Garderobe July in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) III. 505 Item, one rounde gowne of Isabella-colour satten,..set with silver spangles.
1661 T. Blount Peacham's Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xiv. 156 Of the signification of Colours... Isabella, Beauty.
1689 London Gaz. No. 2459/4 A new red Coat with an Izabella colour Lining.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 71 Is in Shape like the Rousselet, of a very light Isabella Colour, like the Martin Sec.
1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 5 From the names of persons, as Isabella yellow, now called cream yellow.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 329 Of a yellowish grey, verging on Isabella colour.
1870 A. L. Adams Notes Naturalist Nile Valley & Malta 38 The desert lark..is..of a light Isabella colour above, and white below.
2. Applied to varieties of fruits:
a. A kind of peach.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach
peacha1425
Isabella1664
peachlet1877
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 70 in Sylva Peaches. Nutmeg, Isabella, Persian.
b. A species of North American grape ( Vitis Labrusca) with large fruit, sometimes purple, often green and red.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > types of
wild vinea1382
malmsey1511
malvoisie1517
raisin1573
parsley vine1648
winter grape1670
morillon1691
summer grape1709
Pineau1763
tresseau1763
frost grape1771
muscadinec1785
sweet-water1786
chicken grape1807
scuppernong1811
Marsanne1824
Merlot1825
Cabernet1833
Isabella1835
mustang1846
Traminer1851
labrusca1854
Pinot1854
Catawba1857
Isabel1858
Trebbiano1860
aglianico1862
Canaiolo1862
verdelho1883
vinifera1888
Durif1897
Chardonnay1911
Chenin Blanc1913
Sylvaner1928
Syrah1928
Tokay wine1959
Mourvedre1967
1835–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 197 In an arbor, surrounded with honeysuckle, and Isabella grape.
1846 Knickerbocker 27 419 A snaky looking vine..from which glorious bunches of Catawbas and Isabellas may be gathered.
1853 B. F. Taylor Jan. & June (1871) 23 A respectable Apple tree..inexperienced in the wiles and ways of Catawbas, Isabellas, and the like.
1863 Handbk. Bot. 292 The Isabella..varieties of this species.
1864 9th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 35 Years after the introduction of the Isabella came the Diana, Concord, and some others.
1949 Amer. Photography Apr. 244/1 Vitis labrusca..has furnished the catawba,..the Concord,..and the Isabella.

Compounds

Isabella-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > greyish yellow
Isabella1600
Isabella-coloured1681
isabelline1859
fauchie1911
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 48 Isabella coloured Mohair.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 371 All the Nysain horses were Isabella coloured.
1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 89/2 Isabella-coloured Bear, Ursus Isabellinus.
1858 J. R. Planché tr. Countess d'Aulnoy Princess Belle-etoile 573 She mounted an Isabella-coloured horse; the black mane of which was dressed with rows of diamonds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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