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单词 red ochre
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red ochrered ochern.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈoʊkər/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and ochre n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., ochre n.
Etymology: < red adj. + ochre n.
A red variety of ochre widely used as a pigment; = ruddle n.1
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > earths as colouring matter
red stoneeOE
red eartheOE
redding1292
raddlea1350
ruddle1353
rubric?1440
red ochre1481
sinoper1501
red1538
red chalk1538
sinople1548
terra sigillata1563
almagre1598
majolica1598
minium1613
orell1614
reddle1648
India red1668
Indian red1672
riddle1681
smit1728
Persian earth1735
red marl1748
abraum1753
Terra Sienna1760
tivera1825
kokowai1836
sinopia1844
sinopis1857
1481–90 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 397 Rede oker to send be watyr with the sayd hoppes, in Ferdes cache of Brekemlynsey.
1510 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 199 Ceruse, Synoper, red okyr, yelowe oker.
1572 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. (MS) Payed for red oker iijd.
1574 tr. Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury sig. Evv This word..is written with his owne hand, in redde oker letters, vppon the browe of the boke.
1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis 86 He wrote with a redde oker stone vpon the shrine.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 417 This floure of salt is..commonly coloured with red ocre.
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 28 Some ingenious Anglers..use to shave Riddle or red Oker..into the Moss they keep their Worms in.
1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 395 About Winford..it turns to Ruddle, or Red-Okre, used chiefly for marking of Sheep.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 236 They use many methods to darken their skins by art, painting them with red oker.
1786 W. Hamilton Lett. conc. Northern Coast Antrim viii. 103 With a very moderate heat it becomes of a bright red ochre colour.
1801 W. Somerville Jrnl. Dec. in Narr. Journeys Eastern Cape Frontier (1979) iv. 143 Our greatest luxury is to pour melted fat and red ochre upon our heads till it runs down our faces (not unlike the jewish anointing).
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 322 The company are now promenading outside in all the dignity of wigs, spangles, red-ochre, and whiting.
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron iii. 34 The soft and more earthy varieties [of red hæmatite] constitute red ochre.
1959 Home Encycl. 245 When applying white hearthstone or red ochre to steps, hearths and window-sills, use thin starch instead of water.
1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) ii. 53 At Le Moustier in southern France, a young man's body was found sprinkled with red ocher and buried in a flexed position, as if in sleep.

Compounds

General attributive, with the sense ‘coloured with, or as with, red ochre’.In the 17th cent. frequently designating Gypsies (apparently with allusion to their dark colouring).
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1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. G2v No Red-oaker man caries a face of a more filthy complexion.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2 Gipsies, but no tann'd ones, no Red-oker rascalls umberd with soot and bacon as the English Gipsies are.
1839 G. Almar Oliver Twist ii. i A boy with a round head, red-ochre cheeks and goggle eyes.
1842 C. Mathews Career Puffer Hopkins v. 38 He..is suddenly surprised and taken by a band of savages of a red-ochre complexion.
1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 24 375 Red ocher deposit burials of Illinois represent a distinctly different culture from those of Maine.
2007 N. Williams & C. Le Nevez Provence & Côte D'Azur (Lonely Planet) (ed. 5) 266/2 Its permanent collection is displayed in a red ochre 17th-century Genoese villa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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