fulvid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fulvidus, from fulvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʌlvɪd/, /ˈfʊlvɪd/
Adjective
fulvid (comparative more fulvid, superlative most fulvid)
- Fulvous; tawny-coloured.
- 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, OCLC 1049141463, book 1, stanza 3, page 1:
- When skilful limmer 'ſuing his intent / Shall fairly well pourtray and wiſely hit / The true proportion of each lineament, / And in right colours to the life depaint / The fulvid Eagle with her ſun-bright eye
- 1976, Tanith Lee, The Storm Lord:
- Lomandra dressed the girl in rare fabrics that hung like sacks on her body, and combed out her lifeless, fulvid hair […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fulvid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)