blood-red
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blood-red (comparative more blood-red or (rare) blood-redder, superlative most blood-red or (rare) blood-reddest)
- Alternative form of blood red.
- 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 176:
- The sun went down blood-red, and, in its dying glories, the crescent moon shewed first pale, then glowing; […]
- 1935, “Algeria”, in Motoring Abroad, New York, N.Y.: American Automobile Association, →OCLC, page 179:
- Founded by a 16th century Turkish buccaneer, every house roof in the old town a vantage point from which to watch for sails, every dungeon walled with tragedy and roofed with despair. Algiers ought to look like one of the world’s blood-reddest spots. Now—Algiers the white, Algiers of the gorgeous gardens, Algiers that rises tier on tier from its crescent bay—no city could be fairer than this great, gay “Paris in Africa” that was born because Napoleon issued a fiat that piracy should be no more.
- 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 96:
- Also the candles flickering in the blood-red sconces are black and the body on the crucifix is that of a full-breasted woman.
- 1977, Opera, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1138:
- Salome was given in the [Gustav] Klimt-style sets and costumes of Jürgen Rose, lit alternately to their moonlight-bluest and their blood-reddest, and int he smoothly-moving, eerily-sleazy staging by Boleslaw Barlog […].