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单词 box colour
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box colour
c. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of the colour of boxwood; of a cream or yellow colour’, as in box colour, etc. Obsolete.
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Aristolochia, an herbe, wherof be two kyndes... Bothe of them do beare beryes lyke to capers, within of box coloure, whiche are bytter and stynkynge.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. C7 Their box complexions..Their iaundice looks.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 276 Boxteeth, teeth as yellow as box.
1744 J. Wilson Synopsis Brit. Plants 155 The chives are hairy, of a box colour, and tipp'd with..red summits.
1850 J. Bliss tr. St. Gregory's Morals on Job (new ed.) III. xxxi. 452 The rhinoceros is said to be of box colour, and is stated to strike with his horn the bellies of elephants.
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