flavous

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You are reminded that upon Thursday last you purchased butter flavous, or chops rosy; but where is hint, sign, direction, or instruction touching the purchase of either upon Thursday next?

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  1. Yellow; specifically, in entomology, perfectly yellow, without intermixture of red, green, or brown. The membrane itself is somewhat of a flavous colour, and tends more towards that of gold than any other part whatsoever. J. Smith, Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age (1666).

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  1. from Latin flāvus, golden-yellow, reddish-yellow, flaxen-colored; perhaps orig. *flagvus, ‘flame-colored,’ from √ *flag in *flagma, flamma, flame, flagrare, burn: see flame, flagrant.
 

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