Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Turning red; reddening.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing or becoming red; tending to a red color; blushing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
turning red ;reddening
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool 2004
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The line of tail lights snaked over the hills and into the woods, the whole thing inching along like a rubescent worm.
The Delicate Storm Blunt, Giles 2003
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From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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The demon's rubescent eyes fixed malevolently on the mage.
Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984
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From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984
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She wasn't a prude but she was a girl who hadn't until now allowed any man the privilege of such an intimacy, which the ruby-shaded lamps intensified, casting a rubescent glow over the turned-back sheets and lace counterpane of the big bed.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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Dimly through rubescent veils, the others in the hall could glimpse his white, frozen features, fixed in a grimace of torment.
Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool 1919
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Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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