| 单词 |
rose-red |
| 释义 |
ˈrose-red, a. and n.
[f. rose n. + red a. and n.1 Cf. MDu. rose(n)root (Du. roze-, rozenrood), MHG. rose(n)rôt (G. rosenrot), MSw. rosenerödh (Sw. rosenröd, Da. -rød), Icel. rósrauður.]
A. adj. Red like a rose; rose-coloured.
a1300K. Horn 16 He was whit so þe flur, Rose red was his colur. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 254 Two corunes han we, Snow white and Rose reed, that shynen cleere. a1400Lybeaus Disc. 1538 Knyghtes..That beth armed sure In rose-reed armure. c1425Orolog. Sapient. vii. in Anglia X. 388 By þe vertue of þat rose-rede blode þat þou schaddest.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 328 Redstone..—Its colour, by reflected light, is rose red. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 474 Body beautiful rose red, silvery on the sides and abdomen. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 275 They..Swim in a rose-red glow.
B. n. A red like that of a rose.
a1400Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 271 Wrout is on þe bok with-oute, V. paraffys grete & stoute Bolyd in rose red.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 53 The l[ichen] physodes gave a yellowish-gray; the pustulatus, a rose red. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1061 Beyond a bridge of treble bow, All in a rose-red from the west. 1882Garden 1 April 211 They are both of a uniform soft rose-red. |
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