rubescent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of rubescent
1725–35; < Latin rubēscent- (stem of rubēscēns, present participle of rubēscere to redden), equivalent to rub ( ēre ) to be red (derivative of ruber red; see ruby) + -ēsc- inchoative suffix + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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The words “He Was Special 2 Me” are emblazoned across the shirt in rubescent detail.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017
It is blood-red fact; it is warm-hearted invitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Amid a theatre of opalescent clouds reefed in the east, the sun diffused its glory, and shaped rubescent coral columns, edging its facade with azure and gold.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
And I once a rubescent socialist … best parlor type … Lord!
From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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