rutilance
English
Etymology
French?
Noun
rutilance (usually uncountable, plural rutilances)
- (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.
- 1918-22, James Joyce, Ulysses
Related terms
- rutilant
- rutilation
Anagrams
- Lucretian, antiulcer, centurial, intracule
French
Noun
rutilance f (plural rutilances)
- rutilance
Further reading
- “rutilance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.