Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
filemot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Of the color of a dead leaf.
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- adjective obsolete Of the colour of a
dead leaf .
Etymologies
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See filemot.
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Examples
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It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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