| 单词 | puke colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuke colour 2. More fully puke colour. A colour formerly used for woollen goods, produced by galls and copperas and hence probably a very deep bluish black or dark brown colour, although variously described (see the quots.).Probably originally the usual colour of the cloth at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [noun] > bluish black puke1510 blue-blackness1865 1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula sig. Civ Piceus, puke. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pullus,..russette, sometyme blacke, but rather puke color, betwene russet & black. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. ii. f. 97/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I His coate, gowne & cloake of browne blew or puke. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Pauonaccio cupo A deepe darke purple or puke colour. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) ii. v. 124 To dye wool of a puke colour, take Galls..and boyle your wool or your Cloth therein..halfe an hour: then take them up, and put in your Coperas into the same Liquor, then put in your wool again. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 178/2 Their [sc. Bactrian camels'] colour is brown, or puke. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mixing colour If..you would needs have your Cloth of three Colours, as of two dark and one light, or contrary; supposing Crimson, Yellow or Puke. < as lemmas |
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