oxblood
oxblood noun: a dark brownish-red colour.
Noun
oxblood (uncountable)
- A dark brownish-red colour.
- The blood of an ox.
- […] we can change clothes, and with the aid of a bottle of oxblood, which is secreted about my person, we will deceive the tyrant, and spare a nobleman who does honour to Japan.1866 May 26, “The Jewelled Dagger”, in The Saturday Reader, volume II, number 38, Montreal: W. B. Cordier & Co., page 188
- Vampires do urinate copiously on their victims, however, and the possibility exists that they relocate their victims by following the mixed scents of their own urine and butyric acid. Nothing is known about how they are able to relocate the precise wound made on a previous feeding sortie; it was...1980, D. Michael Stoddart, The Ecology of Vertebrate Olfaction, Springer, →ISBN
Adjective
oxblood (comparative more oxblood, superlative most oxblood)
- Of a dark brownish-red colour.
- He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.1993, John Banville, Ghosts
Examples of oxblood in a sentence
- Then he guffaws and says, apparently to his partner but really across at her and loudly enough for her to hear: I don’t drink oxblood.1991, Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination, New Directions Books, →ISBN, page 70:
- Oxblood was commonly used as a binding and stabilising agent in former times.2000, Gernot Minke, Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth in Modern Architecture, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- I must oxblood drink for to recover ‘I have to drink oxblood to recover.’2005, Sjef Barbiers, editor, Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
- Mac informed me that it was treated with oxblood and bee’s wax.2014, Betty June Gilliland, Destiny’s Tapestry: I Walk This Path, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse LLC, →ISBN, page 34:
Forms of oxblood
| comparative | more oxblood |
|---|---|
| superlative | most oxblood |
Origin of oxblood
From ox + blood.
Questions about oxblood
- What does oxblood mean?
- Oxblood means a dark brownish-red colour.
- How do you use oxblood in a sentence?
- Then he guffaws and says, apparently to his partner but really across at her and loudly enough for her to hear: I don’t drink oxblood.
- What part of speech is oxblood?
- Oxblood can be a noun or an adjective.
Words near oxblood in the dictionary
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