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red-figure
or red-fig·ured
[ red-fig-yer ]
adjective
- pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of red-figure1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
The delusion of the red figure with the knife had passed for a moment, and the king's eyes were closed.
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On the second board the seven beads are arranged in rows of four, corresponding to the number indicated by the red figure.
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The red figure was making up the trail to the foot-bridge that led to the Indian houses, and both officers fired.
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I saw something out of the tail of my eye,—a red figure,—and turned sharply.
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He scanned the thinning crowd on the pond sharply—no little red figure was to be seen.
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