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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.
Similar to: Chromatic
Derivative terms: Carmine, Cerise, Cherry, Crimson, Red, Redness, Ruddiness, Scarlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruby-red
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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