Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting a red light or illumination.
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Examples
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VIAnd travelers now within that valley, Through the red-litten windows, seeVast forms that move fantasticallyTo a discordant melody; While, like a rapid ghastly river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laughbut smile no more.
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Alit is due, no doubt, to mere inadvertence or ignorance: the form litten ( 'red-litten windows', &c.), for which the Oxford Dictionary quotes Poe, Lytton, W. Morris, and Crockett, but no old writer, is sham archaism. [back]
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The two sentries came to the front of the house and stared at the red-litten blinds.
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It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.
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It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.
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It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.
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As he stood in the gold red-litten with the Wrath's thin edges bared.
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_Litten_, lighted up; cf. red-litten, torch-litten.
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As he stood in the gold red-litten with the Wrath's thin edges bared.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
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