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blood-red

[ bluhd-red ]

adjective

  1. of the deep-red color of blood:

    a fiery, blood-red sunset.

  2. red with blood:

    The blood-red banner symbolized the army's defeat.



blood red

noun

    1. a deep red colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      blood-red roses

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blood-red1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300
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Example Sentences

Besides, no one is suggesting that she run in some blood-red enclave like Kansas or Wyoming.

Spirits were high as blood-red farm equipment was on the march, crushing doubts and pessimism like so many misplaced forearms!

The truth is a blood-red fog bank rolled over all of us in Iraq and Afghanistan and never lifted.

His masterful color sense paired a blood-red satin tunic with fuchsia trousers.

NOVEMBER 15 1979, WASHINGTON, DC: Congress is accidentally photographed wearing their blood-red robes of state.

For a few moments - 167 -the sun bathes the great garden in a pinkish glow, then drops slowly, a blood-red disk, behind the trees.

And her sides shone red as blood—red as they had shone on the grassy lawn of an old chateau near far-off Vienna.

That moment a blood-red glow took the place of the sickly yellow which had hitherto filled every recess of this weird apartment.

The slabs of the flooring, covered everywhere else with greenish moisture, wore a blood-red tint under the prong.

He saw a horseman in flashing armor and blood-red turban come pricking toward them.

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