rutilant

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Standing against the wall and blinking at the rutilant glare of the room, Goliath the dwarf waited nervously.

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  1. adjective Bright red.

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  • For rutilant dignotion would I earn; —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Standing against the wall and blinking at the rutilant glare of the room, Goliath the dwarf waited nervously. —  Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath
  • One lithe lock wriggles in his rutilant grasp. —  The Heptalogia
  • Mother's milk, Purefoy, the milk of human kin, milk too of those burgeoning stars overhead rutilant in thin rainvapour, punch milk, such as those rioters will quaff in their guzzling den, milk of madness, the honeymilk of Canaan's land. —  Ulysses
  • _Notandus minio, nec cedro charta notatur, _ refers not to the colour rather, which was usually red, and perhaps temper’d with this bitter oyl (as some conjecture) let our antiquaries determine: The horns and knobs at the ends of the rolling-staves, on which those sheets of parchment, &c. (before the invention of printing, and compacted covers now in use) as at present our maps and geographical charts (peeping out a little beyond the volume) were likely colour’d with this rutilant mixture. —  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
 

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  1. Middle English rutilaunt, from Latin rutilāns, rutilant-, present participle of rutilāre, to make red, to be reddish, from rutilus, red, reddish; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French rutilant = Spanish Portuguese Italian rutilante, from Latin rutilan(t-)s, present participle of rutilare, be or color reddish: see rutilate.
 

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