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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A moderate purplish red.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The color of rosaniline; an intensely chromatic and luminous purplish rose-color. see purple.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A brilliant purple-red dye derived from aniline
  2. n. The purple-red colour of this dye

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
  2. n. a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino

Etymologies

  1. So called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought at about the time of its discovery. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Solferino, a village of northern Italy, from the discovery of a dye of this color in the same year that a battle was fought there (1859). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Main Street, when I saw Mary Sam's solferino bonnet bobbin 'up and down inside.”

    Hepsey Burke

  • “Them cheeks is now a deep solferino colour," he observed, and”

    Patty's Butterfly Days

  • “We'll paint the Langham a fine bright solferino, when the church parade is over. ”

    A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus

  • “The seats were long benches, upholstered with solferino-colored damask and the scenes were the merest daubs.”

    Sixty Years of California Song

  • “The pure arsenical tones are preferred in the Bend, and, by the bye, anybody who remembers the days when ladies wore magenta and solferino, and wants to have those dear old colors set his teeth on edge again, can go to the Bend and find them there.”

    Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches

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  1. pitched battle
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  1. purplish pink
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