Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as fulvous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Fulvous.

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  • adjective fulvous; tawny-coloured

Etymologies

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Latin fulvidus, from Latin fulvus.

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Examples

  • Order is being restored, fresh and vigorous shoots sprouting up from the fulvid basis; but it may be many years before the damage is wholly repaired and the original beauty of the garden restored, for the

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The fulvid edge of the light outlined the arched nose as he turned to look at her and gleamed opaque on a circle of glass.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • In the fulvid depths of her red-brown eyes there dwelt an expression of misery.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • Order is being restored, fresh and vigorous shoots sprouting up from the fulvid basis; but it may be many years before the damage is wholly repaired and the original beauty of the garden restored, for the "growth" of coral -- the skeletons of the polyps -- is methodical and very slow.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

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  • "a deep yellow Colour." --Glossographia Anglicana Nova, 1707.

    "or fulvous, of a yellowish, dusky colour, Lion tawny." --English Dict., 1717.

    December 5, 2012