单词 | brick-dust red |
释义 | > as lemmasbrick-dust red With colour words, forming nouns and (rarely) adjectives, as brick-dust brown, brick-dust red, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > brownish red rufe?c1400 red-fallowc1425 colour-de-roy1531 roy1549 red roan1639 rubiginy1657 rust1716 brick-red1759 brick-dust red1776 morone1777 maroon1779 rufous1783 brick1793 tile-red1805 brick dusta1807 worm red1831 cinnamon-red1882 chaudron1883 rosewood1897 tony1921 1776 W. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 108 A brick-dust red. 1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 1 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 97 The head and neck..are of a light brickdust brown. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab xiii. 249 Its leaves and fruit-pods [are] a brick-dust orange. 1902 Sat. Rev. 20 Sept. 359/1 The setting sun flushed the mud walls a brick-dust pink. 1938 Table Talk (Melbourne) 10 Nov. 36/4 His wife..was a dramatic figure in her brick dust red chiffon frock. 2006 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. 12 The 1935 building..has been painted brick dust red. < as lemmas |
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