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  • adjective of a red color tinged with rust

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Examples

  • Modigliani's 1917 depiction of a brunette sitting cross-legged against a rusty-red backdrop, "Nude Sitting on a Sofa (The Beautiful Romanian)," sold to an anonymous telephone bidder who paid well over the work's $40 million asking price.

    Sotheby's Sells $68.9 Million Modigliani Kelly Crow 2010

  • It turns the fertile soil, and the cob walls of the barns and farmhouses, bright rusty-red with the occasional hint of pink at sunset.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • There was something wet and rusty-red that had trickled into the gravel and splashed on the corner of the Dumpster.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • It turns the fertile soil, and the cob walls of the barns and farmhouses, bright rusty-red with the occasional hint of pink at sunset.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • There was something wet and rusty-red that had trickled into the gravel and splashed on the corner of the Dumpster.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • There was something wet and rusty-red that had trickled into the gravel and splashed on the corner of the Dumpster.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • They wore rusty-red tunics henna-dyed, under black cloaks, and carried swords.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Always to starboard remained the narrow sea-wall, a length without breadth which we had seen after the lowlands of Cape Lopez, coloured rosy, rusty-red, or white, and sometimes backed by a second sierra of low blue rises, which suggests the sanatorium.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • At noon we met the “heaven-sent, life-sustaining sea-breeze;” and now the broad and well-marked Wady Makná, with its rosy-pink sands, narrowed to a gut, flanked and choked on both sides, north and south, by rocks of the strangest tricolour, green-black, yellow-white, and rusty-red.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The stain was rusty-red and shaped like a crescent moon.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

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