Saharan.
/səˈhɑːrə/, U.S. /səˈhɛrə/, /səˈhɑrə/ 1.
a. The great desert of Libya or northern Africa. (With capital S as proper name.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > specific
Sahara1613
sertão1816
mallee1851
hammada1853
erg1875
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 556 Lybia, he calleth Sarra, for so the Arabians call a desert.
1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N2v Sahara. The stonie countrey, the sands: the same almost that Sarra is.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 13 The Deserts of Zaara.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 246 He withdrew among his Arab Confederates in the Sahara, or Desart.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iii. 28 Having some resemblance to the Stepps of Tartary, or the Saara's of Africa.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXIX. (at cited word) Zahara.
1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 970/1 The..sandy Zaarras of Africa.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xii. 275 The shadowless..wastes of Zahara.
b. transferred and figurative. A desert, wilderness.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [noun] > unproductive place
no man's landc1350
wilderness1594
wastage1823
Sahara1855
wasteland1869
dead zone1902
1855 C. Dickens Holly-tree Inn: Guest in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No. 2/2 The bleak wild solitude..was a snowy Saharah.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ i. 4 During this autumnal season,..the city is a desert, a Sahara.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 25 Between Battle Bridge and that part of the Holloway district in which he dwelt, was a tract of suburban Sahara.
1893 Lit. World 3 Nov. 332/1 In the Sahara of contemporary verse there are sometimes..oases full of beauties and surprises.
2. A shade of brown or yellow. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > brownish yellow
fallowa1425
ochre1440
Minozin1680
fulvidness1685
satinwood1773
buff1788
nankeen1794
mountain yellow1801
chamois1872
mustard1884
oliveness1890
Sahara1923
the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > brownish yellow
ochry1567
olive-coloured1612
sand-coloured1627
shammy1661
buff-coloured1686
pea soup1703
ochreish1747
ochreous1761
buff1765
ochraceous1776
buff-colour1796
buffish1802
mustard-coloured1825
nankeen1838
buffy1842
ochre-coloured1845
mustardy1850
ochrous1877
buff-yellow1882
buff-washed1883
mustard1919
Sahara1923
wheaten1975
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > yellowish brown
honey colour1571
hair-colour1615
butternut1810
cinnamon-brown1826
honey1888
cinnamon1895
walnut1895
golden oak1898
almond1923
Sahara1923
sand1923
sandalwood1926
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown
yellow-dun1593
honey-coloured1603
cinnamon-coloured1679
cinnamon1685
lurid1767
rhubarb1792
tombac-brown1794
sherry-bay1856
khaki1863
khaki coloured1879
golden oak1883
rhubarby1885
crotal1901
brown-gold1909
Sahara1923
safari1934
1923 Daily Mail 9 Oct. 1/1 Colours: Lemon,..Fawn, Sahara, Mole.
1930 Daily Express 8 Sept. 11/5 The suit is stocked in shades of sand, Sahara Brown and Grey.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 12 He was..broad-shouldered, with that super kind of Swedish suède jacket in Sahara sand colour.
1974 Times 4 May 5/2 Bathroom suites in..honeysuckle, orchid, midnight blue, sahara, black.
1976 Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 20/2 (advt.) 1971 Opel Rekord coupe in Sahara Gold.
Derivatives
Saˈharian adj.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] > barren or desert
barren1377
desert1393
bleaka1552
blunt1553
foodless1581
bleach1598
landless1606
desertuous1632
bald1642
bleaky1687
parsimonious1713
Saharan1849
deserty1891
Saharic1892
Saharian1897
desertic1936
scalded1936
1897 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 129 The Saharian district.
Saˈharic adj.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] > barren or desert
barren1377
desert1393
bleaka1552
blunt1553
foodless1581
bleach1598
landless1606
desertuous1632
bald1642
bleaky1687
parsimonious1713
Saharan1849
deserty1891
Saharic1892
Saharian1897
desertic1936
scalded1936
1892 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. ii. 216 As well might one hope to squeeze rain from a Saharic sand-cloud.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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