solferino

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

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  1. noun A moderate purplish red.

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  • The seats were long benches, upholstered with solferino-colored damask and the scenes were the merest daubs. —  Sixty Years of California Song
  • Scarlet and solferino are deadly enemies, each killing the other whenever they meet Two contrasting colors, such as red and green, may not be used in equal quantities in the dress, as they are both so positive in tone that they divide and distract the attention. —  Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
  • We'll paint the Langham a fine bright solferino, when the church parade is over Frank sat rather sulkily watching the slow minute-hand, and listening to the light-hearted chatter of the boy-lieutenant, and the more deliberate answers of his best man. —  A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
  • We'll paint the Langham a fine bright solferino, when the church parade is over. ' —  A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
  • Main Street, when I saw Mary Sam's solferino bonnet bobbin 'up and down inside. —  Hepsey Burke
 

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  1. 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).

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  1. So named from Solferino in Italy, because this color was discovered in the year (1859) of the French victory of Solferino, Cf. magenta.
 

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/sɑlfəˈrinoʊ/
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