Examples
“Chaminade smelled of red wine and garlic sauce, a little sweat and a tingle of French scent.”
“She laughs and shakes her head and takes a sip of the house red wine that, we have already agreed, is the lousiest wine we ever drank in our lives worse than the stuff they force on us at the hospital's annual dance, she says, which is saying something, believe me, Salvo.”
“We drank the substantial red wine and ordered fried brie and cranberries with another half-bottle.”
“Augustus Brine sat in one of the big leather chairs in front of his fireplace, drinking red wine from a balloon goblet and puffing away on his meerschaum.”
“This was a stunning piece of culinary artistrycreamy, rich, light on the tonguefollowed by an entre of sliced, herbed beef served over lettuce with carrots and zucchini, and a bottle of Carai, a dry red wine that Davide was deservedly excited about.”
“Crauford pushed a bottle of red wine towards Sharpe.”
“Cormac opened the door to Garrett Devaney, who proffered a bottle of red wine with an apologetic aside.”
“There were bottles lying round everywhere, and Maigret noticed that they had all contained red wine — the coarse red wine that navvies drink straight from the bottle, to wash down their lunch-time sausage as they sit by the roadside.”
“And sure enough, they had pulled up in front of a tall, thin building that was so crooked you might suspect that the stonemasons had enjoyed a little too much red wine when they were building it.”
“I sipped red wine and read some of Adam Gopnik's essays in Paris to the Moon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘red wine’.
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EN - coloured collocations
The bad news: There are possibly tens of thousands of colour collocations in English. The good news is that the pictures retrieved by Wordnik from flickr will probably match the terms this time.
black currant, black eye, black pudding, blue baby, Blue Beard, blue bell, blue berry, blue blood, Blue Book, blue bottle, blue cheese, blue chip and 280 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
red phrases /words
how red is used
bushy red mint, California red scale, dark red silver ore, down the red lane, Florida red scale, in red, in the red, in (the) red row, Knights of the Re..., light red silver ore, old red lammas, on red and 764 more...
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My favourite bevarages
It's a list of my favourite beverages. In words.
coffee, soy chai latte, red tea, orange juice, cranberry juice, vimto, black tea, red wine, butty, water, lucozade sport, pepsi and 3 more...
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Reds
Inspired by hernesheir's Greens list.
blood red, red, red-backed, redbait, red-bellied, redbird, red-blooded, redbreast, red-breasted, redbrick, red-brown, redbud and 51 more...
Tweets
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