单词 | bone-colour |
释义 | > as lemmasbone-colour bone-colour n. and adj. (a) n. the colour of bone (cf. sense 15); off-white; (b) adj. of the colour of bone. ΚΠ 1856 W. White On Foot through Tyrol v. 103 Some showy tombs, their railings tipped with gilt hearts, and deaths' heads painted of a bone colour at the corners. 1868 C. Spence Bate & J. O. Westwood Hist. Brit. Sessile-eyed Crustacea II. 166 It is of a pale bone colour, covered with minute black dots. 1906 H. P. Keith & E. A. Cummins Pract. Stud.: Interior Decoration & Furnishing x. 135 The bone-color background..brings out the design. 2014 Archit. Digest Mar. 54/1 The velvety, bone-colour carpet was chosen for reasons beyond pure aesthetics. < as lemmas |
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