rutilance

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

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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.