| 单词 | judas-coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJudas-coloured Judas-coloured adj. [from the medieval popular tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair] (esp. of hair) of a red or yellowish-red colour; having hair or a beard of this colour.Now chiefly in historical contexts. ΚΠ 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna i. 9 There's treachery in that Judas colour'd Beard. 1868 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 512/1 A solid, prosaic captain of the Heaviest Dragoons..with a florid complexion and Judas-coloured hair, boisterous red whiskers, [etc.]. 1871 Atlantic Almanac 1872 54/1 He [sc. a cat] was an ugly specimen of the streaked-carroty, or Judas-colored kind. 1906 E. Phillpotts Daniel Sweetland vii. 97 Have any of you chaps seen a Judas-colored man this morning?..His name's Jordan, and he carries a great red beard afore him. 1919 ‘A. Pryde’ Marqueray's Duel (1920) 21 Marqueray..ran his fingers through his Judas-colored hair. 1940 E. Sitwell Poems New & Old 9 Under the Judas-coloured sun. 2003 M. Gentle Sundial in Grave (2005) ii. 17 They were more likely to recall a square-shouldered man with Judas-coloured hair than his companion agent of the Duc de Sully. < as lemmas |
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