blood-red

[ bluhd-red ]

/ ˈblʌdˈrɛd /

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adjective

of the deep-red color of blood: a fiery, blood-red sunset.

red with blood: The blood-red banner symbolized the army's defeat.

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Origin of blood-red

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

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How to use blood-red in a sentence

Besides, no one is suggesting that she run in some blood-red enclave like Kansas or Wyoming.
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Spirits were high as blood-red farm equipment was on the march, crushing doubts and pessimism like so many misplaced forearms!
Sochi’s Impenetrable, Utterly Russian Opening Ceremony|Kelly Williams Brown|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The truth is a blood-red fog bank rolled over all of us in Iraq and Afghanistan and never lifted.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too?|John Kael Weston|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His masterful color sense paired a blood-red satin tunic with fuchsia trousers.
Milan’s Day-Glo Exuberance|Robin Givhan|September 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST

NOVEMBER 15 1979, WASHINGTON, DC: Congress is accidentally photographed wearing their blood-red robes of state.
Life as the 'PC Guy'|The Daily Beast Video|November 9, 2009|DAILY BEAST
For a few moments - 167 -the sun bathes the great garden in a pinkish glow, then drops slowly, a blood-red disk, behind the trees.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith
And her sides shone red as blood—red as they had shone on the grassy lawn of an old chateau near far-off Vienna.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
That moment a blood-red glow took the place of the sickly yellow which had hitherto filled every recess of this weird apartment.
The Circular Study|Anna Katharine Green
The slabs of the flooring, covered everywhere else with greenish moisture, wore a blood-red tint under the prong.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue
He saw a horseman in flashing armor and blood-red turban come pricking toward them.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis

British Dictionary definitions for blood-red

blood red

noun

a deep red colour
(as adjective)blood-red roses

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