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pillar-box red

pillar-box red noun: a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.

Noun

pillar-box red (plural pillar-box reds)

  1. A bright red colour, like that of a British post box.

Adjective

pillar-box red (not comparable)

  1. Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
    • ‘All right. And if there were no “ladies” in the vicinity?’ ¶ ‘Well, you can always,’ and here Archie went a pillar-box red, this being his own version of cementing a friendship, ‘slap the salami, as the GIs say!’2000, Zadie Smith, “The Root Canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal” (chapter 5), in White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 88

Forms of pillar-box red

pluralpillar-box reds

Questions about pillar-box red

What does pillar-box red mean?
Pillar-box red means a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
What part of speech is pillar-box red?
Pillar-box red can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of pillar-box red?
The plural of pillar-box red is pillar-box reds.

Words near pillar-box red in the dictionary

  1. pillar telephone
  2. pillar telephones
  3. Pillar Valley
  4. pillar-biter
  5. pillar-biters
  6. pillar-box red
  7. pillar-box reds
  8. pillararene
  9. pillararenes
  10. pillarbox
  11. pillarboxed

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