Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling isabel; of the hue called isabel.
  • noun Same as isabel.

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

  • adjective Of an isabel or isabella color.

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  • adjective Of an isabel or isabella colour.

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Examples

  • The = pileus = is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • All the birds, reptiles, and insects of Sahara, says Canon Tristram, copy closely the grey or isabelline colour of the boundless sands that stretch around them.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • To begin with, all the smaller denizens of the desert -- whether butterflies, beetles, birds, or lizards -- must be quite uniformly isabelline or sand-coloured.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • -- Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- General colour sandy, more or less mixed with dusky; pale isabelline on the sides; no grey on rump; tail dark brown above; ears without black tip; lower parts white; fur soft and long; fore-legs very pale, brown in front; hind-legs still paler, brown outside.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Pale sandy brown; almost isabelline on back and sides; rump greyish-white; tail black above; face and anterior portion of the ears concolorous with back; terminal portion of ears black outside at the edge; breast light rufous; lower parts white; fur fine, close and soft; fore-legs in front, and hind-legs outside, with a light brownish tinge.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Fur long and full, pale, sandy mouse-coloured above, isabelline below; pale on the well-clad limbs, and also on the tail laterally and underneath.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • I made the following notes regarding them: Fur very fine, close and silky, rufescent brown, more rufous on the head, isabelline below; feet flesh-coloured, hinder ones large, much larger than those of the

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Pale yellowish or whitish isabelline, with small spots on the head and neck, but large blotchy rings and crescents, irregularly dispersed on the shoulders, sides and haunches; from middle of back to root of tail a medium irregular dark band closely bordered by a chain of oblong rings; lower parts dingy white, with some few dark spots about middle of abdomen; limbs with small spots; ears externally black; tail bushy with broad black rings.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Hence, without exception, the upper plumage of every bird, whether lark, chat, sylvain, or sand-grouse, and also the fur of all the smaller mammals, and the skin of all the snakes and lizards, is of one uniform isabelline or sand colour. "

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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  • (noun) - (1) A pale brownish-yellow colour; from Isabelle, a princess of this name.

    --Charles Annandale's Dictionary of the English Language, 1897

    (2) The archduke Albertus, who had married the infanta Isabella, daughter of Philip II, King of Spain, . . . determined to lay siege to Ostend Belgium, then in the possession of the heretics. His pious princess, who attended him in that expedition, made a vow that till it was taken she would never change her clothes.

    --Joseph Taylor's Antiquitates Curiosae, 1819

    (3) Contrary to expectation, it was three years before the place was reduced, in which time the linen of her highness had acquired a hue which . . . was much admired and adopted by the court fashionables under the name of "Isabella color." It is a whitish yellow, or soiled buff - better imagined that described.

    --Frank Stauffer's The Queer, the Quaint, the Quizzical, 1882

    January 16, 2018