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FLAME-COLOURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flame-coloured mean?
• FLAME-COLOURED (adjective)
The adjective FLAME-COLOURED has 1 sense:
1. having the brilliant orange-red color of flames
Familiarity information: FLAME-COLOURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the brilliant orange-red color of flames
Synonyms:
flame-colored; flame-coloured
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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