| 单词 | sealing-wax red |
| 释义 | > as lemmassealing-wax red sealing-wax red n. designating a bright red colour, vermilion. ΚΠ 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 156/2 These Colours Kept in Stock..Sealing wax red..Sky..Stone. 1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Jan. (Suppl.) p. iv/2 Red offers a fertile field for flights of descriptive fancy... Post Office red, and sealing wax red may be hackneyed words, but their tone is not in doubt. 1939 Burlington Mag. Oct. 162/2 About 1550 the famous ‘sealing-wax red’ first appears on Turkish pottery. 1957 A. Lane Later Islamic Pottery iii. 60 It will probably never be possible to stop dealers and collectors calling the later Isnik wares ‘Rhodian’, and the nickname is at any rate a convenient label for the whole class in which the ‘sealing-wax red’ appears. < as lemmas |
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