wine-red

• “A circle of blood was spreading on the pavement like a wine-red nimbus around her head.”

  Simon & Schuster: Arcane Circle

• “A wine-red couch against the far wall, with a chipped wooden rolltop desk next to it, the kind with all the pigeonhole compartments.”

  Thor's Day

• “She wore an elegant black dress, with a narrow wine-red sash draped across her right shoulder.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire

• “The king yesterday in a wine-red velvet coat—beautiful! has been attending the theatre with Prince Rupert lately.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “The old wood-road led him to a clearing, where a dozen acres of grapes grew on wine-red soil.”

  Chapter VIII

• “A little later, when the sun was quite down, in the background of the curdled clouds smouldered a wine-red mass of colour, that faded to bronze and tinged all the fading greens with its sanguinary hue.”

  CHAPTER XXIX

• “I love red," he told him and they went up and down the lot looking for the red that suited him — not wine-red, not blood-red, but cherry-red.”

  Fictionaut: Plum-Woman

• “Simon Spurr Simon Spurr paired wine-red corduroy pants with a trench coat for his runway show this season.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Corduroy Gets Chic

• “This small but inspiring pack of kindred corduroy spirits, including the stylish auteur Wes Anderson whose rust-colored cord suits are made by Mr. Ned, a made-to-measure tailor in Manhattan, have no doubt inspired similarly twee designers such as Simon Spurr — who paired wine-red corduroy pants with a trench coat for his runway show this season — and Ralph Lauren, who matched a dove-gray corduroy blazer, vest and bermuda short for his fall collection.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Wale Watch

• “In his horror, Bartholomew realized that these Roman centurions dressed in their military garb, with their wine-red tunics and tight-fitting leather bindings, were not savage beasts.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Shroud Codex

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