rutilance

English

Etymology

French?

Noun

rutilance (usually uncountable, plural rutilances)

1. (rare) redness; a red glow; the quality of being rutilant
   • 1918-22, James Joyce, Ulysses

     […] rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance […]

   • 1945, Melitón Salazar Monroy, Santa Monica, museum of religious art in Puebla:

     He used vegetal colorings for his works, thus, obtaining the rutilances of Van Dyck and that of Van Der Goss.

Related terms

• rutilant
• rutilation

Anagrams

• Lucretian, antiulcer, centurial, intracule

French

Noun

rutilance f (plural rutilances)

1. rutilance

Further reading

• “rutilance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.