sulphureous

British  

/ sʌlˈfjʊərɪəs /

adjective

1. another word for sulphurous

2. of the yellow colour of sulphur

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Other Word Forms

• sulphureously adverb
• sulphureousness noun

Example Sentences

As in “Study for Yellow Sky,” a vigorously brushed evocation of bright blue buildings against a sulphureous background, done in 1986, she could pack a colossal amount of energy into a confined space.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

This place, consisting only of one house of public entertainment and a few cottages, appears to be justly distinguished for the efficacy of its springs, which are chalybeate, sulphureous, and cathartic. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

I knew who had created that sulphureous vapour.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne

For out of it grow all vegetable and animal Substances, which consist as well of sulphureous fat and inflamable Parts, as of earthy lean and alcalizate ones.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir

The heads of the horses alone would be seen through the sulphureous smoke, while in reality the flashes and smoke proceeded from the cannon.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various