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  • adjective of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

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Examples

  • "The pavement should be spotless," one Petal Pusher says, scooping up some ruby-red rose petals.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Petal Pushers Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • "The pavement should be spotless," one Petal Pusher says, scooping up some ruby-red rose petals.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Petal Pushers Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • The scribe uses non-standard language to indicate the colors normally, they would be azure, or, and gules, but what he is describing is a sapphire-blue shield cut diagonally by a yellow-topaz band, over which the ruby-red fencepost-like design has been laid.

    Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011

  • As I sat there gaping in shock, he reached up and wiped a smear of ruby-red blood from his mouth with his sleeve.

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • The scribe uses non-standard language to indicate the colors normally, they would be azure, or, and gules, but what he is describing is a sapphire-blue shield cut diagonally by a yellow-topaz band, over which the ruby-red fencepost-like design has been laid.

    Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011

  • On the 45th day after her discharge, when her pilot status began to elapse, she sped down the Pacific Coast Highway on her ruby-red Harley-Davidson.

    Do Ask, Do Tell 2010

  • With their ruby-red glow, the accented bodices might indicate that ABT's Odette and Odile are as deranged as the film's Nina and have given themselves self-inflicted wounds.

    These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

  • With their ruby-red glow, the accented bodices might indicate that ABT's Odette and Odile are as deranged as the film's Nina and have given themselves self-inflicted wounds.

    These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Without making it sound like I live an excessively sheltered life, I was impressed with the way Williams uses Batwoman's ruby-red lips.

    Shades of Gray(son): Rounding up June’s Bat-books | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • As I sat there gaping in shock, he reached up and wiped a smear of ruby-red blood from his mouth with his sleeve.

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

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