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Definition of Oxblood red
1. Noun. A dark brownish-red color.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxblood Red
Literary usage of Oxblood red
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1905)
"The art was certainly not lost ,m>r rediscovered, and while the pieces exhibited
were good, of a oxblood red glaze on true hard porcelain, we were unable to ..."
2. Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related by Susan I. Rotroff (1997)
"... have been painted with a very fugitive white slip overlaid by polychrome
decoration in pink, carmine and oxblood red, black, purplish brown, and green. ..."
3. Pages from a Garden Note-book by Francis King (1921)
"... all tones; the blotch on its throat is Ridgway, oxblood red, French chart 95-4.
This is, I believe, the most striking gladiolus I have ever seen, ..."
4. Pages from a Garden Note-book by Francis King (1921)
"... all tones; the blotch on its throat is Ridgway, oxblood red, French chart 95-4.
This is, I believe, the most striking gladiolus I have ever seen, ..."
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