English red
Americannoun
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The WCS was the work of anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay, who identified 11 color categories in English: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, white, brown, and gray.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
The room was furnished in English red lacquer, which had been transferred from the collection at Taborley House, when Taborley House had been lent to the Americans for a military hospital.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson
By your Grace's leave Your royal mother came of Spain, but took To the English red and white.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
He left his wife that commodious dwelling of English red and black brick still standing at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, with stable on the grounds.
From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella Kent Barnard
Charles Dickens has given us an amusing account of an English Circumlocution Office, but English red tape dwindles into insignificance by the side of Spanish red tape.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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