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high-coloured

adjective

  1. (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid


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The underside of the mantel-shelf was flushed with the high-coloured light, and the legs of the table nearest the fire.

A face red or high coloured, shows a man much inclined to choler, and one that will be soon angry and not easily pacified.

The urinary secretion was small in quantity and high coloured, but in neither discharge was there any thing very unnatural.

She was high coloured and with dark eyes, but when she faltered then the colour died from her cheeks.

He was a fresh, high-coloured boy, whose features showed even now a slight forecast of General Bolingbroke's awful redness.

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