| 单词 | stammel colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstammel colour 2. More fully stammel colour: the shade of red in which the cloth was commonly dyed. Also attributive or as adjective. (Sometimes vaguely = ‘red’.)In the 17th cent. often spoken of as cheaper than ‘scarlet’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > other reds madderOE stammel colour1567 Paris red1600 strawberry red1675 strawberry1688 cornelian1718 dahlia1846 Pompeian red1868 crushed strawberry1881 wallflower red1883 framboise1895 raspberry1918 1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 273 Two peticotts thone of skerlet th' other of stamell xxxvs. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. iv. 151 The floures be..sometimes Carnation, Stamell, or Scarlet colour. a1585 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) XXIX. 518 Stanell Redes and lustie gallantes. a1585 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) XXIX. 519 You must have light skye collors.., fyne Redes and Stanells. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scarlatino, the colour we call stammell red. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 95 The Violets purple, the sweet Roses stammell. a1637 B. Jonson Kings Entertainm. at Welbeck sig. Oo2v in Wks. (1640) III Red-hood the first that doth appeare In Stamel. Acc. Scarlet is too deare. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xii. 296 As if the scarlet robes of their honour had a stain of the stamell die in them. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 70 The body of a mixt red, partly Crimson, partly Stammell. 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 84 With breaks of Scarlet, or Stammell-colour. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) iv. 50 They were spread under-foot, with Cloth of Gold..the Bridges with Scarlet and Stammel-cloth. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 54 Anoto-Berries dye a very fine Stammel colour. 1890 Æ. Prince Palomide 40 Comes a knight On lusty stammel steed. 1893 Athenæum 18 Nov. 706/1 Miss Gertrude Kingston, whose stammel tresses..are unbecoming and out of harmony with her face. < as lemmas |
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