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?c1400 tr. Secreta Secret. (Sloane) (1977) 11 (MED) Blak here sygnyfies euenes and luf of rightwisnes; Medioker culour bitwene ruf and blak es lufly rody broune.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Candico Beyng a ruddy white.

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 18 Of ruddie black colour.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Roux,..a ruddie or sad yellow.

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) i. 63 Those things that hinder or take off the curdling of Milk..if poured into the Bloud when it is hot, preserve its mixture entire, or rectifie it, as we may conclude from its ruddy bright colour.

a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. xi. 194 Another, with Veins of green, a ruddy black, and yellow sulphurous Marcasite.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. viii. 39 Apples are more ruddy bright If gather'd by fair Luna's waning light.

1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 109 A stone..of a ruddy-purple ground.

1805 W. Vincent Periplus of Erythrean Sea II. iii. xv. 308 There is likewise the mountain or land-tortoise, which has the lower shell of a ruddy yellow, and too hard to be cut.

1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 495/2 Its [sc. mutton's] ruddy-brown juice gushing forth at the touch of his steel.

1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters II. v. 101 There is a ruddy orange hue, a tawny brown, and a bright green; the sunlight comes and mingles these together.

1897 ‘S. Grand’ Beth Bk. xxi. 215 The wonderful ruddy-gold tones that shone on its trunk as the day declined.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 266 Green moonlight And ruddy-orange limbs stirring the limbo Of the unknown air.

1975 L. Yep Dragon Wings 262 Spring turned into summer and the grass in the garden changed into a ruddy gold color.

2004 J. Turner Spice (2005) Introd. p. xxii Dried in the sun, the mace peels away from the nutmeg, fading from scarlet to a ruddy brown.