单词 | croydon-sanguine |
释义 | † croydon-sanguine Obs. ‘Supposed to be a kind of sallow colour’ (Nares). (In the first quot. it is associated with Croydon in Surrey, but app. only as a humorous play upon the name.)
1567R. Edwards Damon & P. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 80 [To Grim, the collier of Croydon] By'r Lady, you are of a good complexion, A right Croyden sanguine. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax L vij (N.), A complexion inclining to the Oriental colour of a croydon-sanguine. 1630Breton Post w. Packet, Your Croidon sanguine is a most fine complexion. |

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