Definition of Ruby-red

1. Adjective. Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruby-red

rubroreticular tract
rubrospinal
rubrospinal decussation
rubrospinal tract
rubrosulphin
rubs
rubs out
rubstone
rubstones
rubulavirus
rubulavirus infections
rubus
ruby
ruby-crowned kinglet
ruby-crowned wren
ruby-red (current term)
ruby slippers
ruby spinel
ruby spots
ruby wedding
ruby wood
rubying
rubylike
rubytail
rubytails
rubythroat
rubythroats
rubywood
ruc
rucervine

Literary usage of Ruby-red

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"amber, ruby-red, emerald-green—which shed a faint mysterious light around. Piles of silken cushions, with their raw Chinese hues, lay on the sofa and on the ..."

2. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"The feathers are first dyed ruby-red and then garnet- brown, ... When the feathers have acquired a ruby-red color thev are washed in clean water, dried, ..."

3. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1919)
"The body of the malarial parasite is stained blue and the chromatin of the nuclei ruby-red; and, in deeply stained preparations of the tertian parasite, ..."

4. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1914)
"The body of the malarial parasite is stained blue and the chromatin of the nuclei ruby-red ; and, in deeply stained preparations of the tertian parasite, ..."

5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1907)
"The older chemists were acquainted with the fact that glass could be coloured a ruby-red tint by means of various gold compounds. ..."

6. A Year of Consolation by Fanny Kemble (1847)
"... the glowing blossoms of the sweet cyclamen shone ruby red in the gleams of sunlight that crept beneath the boughs to make them bright. ..."

7. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1918)
"The body of the malarial parasite is stained blue and the chromatin of the nuclei ruby-red; and, in deeply stained preparations of the tertian parasite, ..."

8. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"The glass, containing a small amount of copper, after treatment in the reduction-flame, becomes sometimes ruby red, and this takes place generally at the ..."

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