Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Reddish or brownish yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reddish-yellow in color; tawny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.
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- adjective
Tawny -coloured.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The difference the professor points out, namely the fulvous colour and the thinner undeveloped horns, exist in various specimens of the
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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We are on the edge of the muddy, fulvous Lion River, hot as tea, and are running through drinking water almost as fast as we can filter it.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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We are on the edge of the muddy, fulvous Lion River, hot as tea, and are running through drinking water almost as fast as we can filter it.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
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The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney – shaped spots of a fulvous hue.
Jacob's Room 2004
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They stood a moment watching his low fulvous body steal across the track.
Maid in Waiting 2004
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Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red.
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‘I should like a fiery dress, a yellow dress, a fulvous dress to wear in the evening.’
The Waves 2003
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He could make out a dust storm as a deeper-brown blot on the fulvous crescent.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
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For two nights Caris sat near that tall, gangly figure bent over the fire, gazing into the embers with his spectacles throwing back the fulvous glow, watching the roads for the approach of danger or, indeed, of anyone or anything that might come upon them and spread word of their presence.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
cbattrick01 commented on the word fulvous
As in, "Forsooth - Frequently, Famous Fine Freddy, fulvous fuliginous fug, forth from frothy frith, fast favor finds, Forever feline Friend!"
February 7, 2024