Definitions
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- noun A dark
brownish -red colour. - adjective Of a dark brownish-red colour.
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Examples
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No reservations Run by Englishman Mark Williamson – whose Willi's Wine Bar around the corner is a favourite local bolthole for Parisian oenophiles – this handsome restaurant with oxblood walls, wedding cake mouldings and parquet floors overlooks the Palais Royal in the heart of Paris.
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We were in the upstairs library of his Earl's Court house, him standing at a tense tilt between stone hearth and oxblood couch, me in the window seat with a tumbler of forty-five-year-old Macallan and a Camel Filter, staring out at dark London's fast-falling snow.
'The Last Werewolf' 2011
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Leather biker jacket patched with band names, stained with blood. 13 eyelet oxblood Doc's.
Morning Joe Thomas Pluck 2011
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Did you know they drink oxblood and they have seventeen varieties of yogurt unique to the region?
The Snow Whale John Minichillo 2011
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Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images The color oxblood dominated the runways.
Trendspotting 2012
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On the floor of the closet he discovered a handsome pair of expensive oxblood dress shoes.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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An old Afrikaans structural engineer I know told me that oxblood was often used as a binder/colorant in these floors.
Floors Made From Peach Pips in South Africa | Inhabitat 2008
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The curtains, of mud-coloured or oxblood plush, were thick enough to exclude all external light.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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The liquid was the color of oxblood and the consistency of diluted syrup.
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On the floor of the closet he discovered a handsome pair of expensive oxblood dress shoes.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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