Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See filemot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Of the color of a dead leaf.

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  • adjective obsolete Of the colour of a dead leaf.

Etymologies

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See filemot.

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Examples

  • It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

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