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  Solferino

  noun

  a village in southeastern Lombardy, in northern Italy: battle 1859.
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Solferino

American  

[sawl-fe-ree-naw, sol-fuh-ree-noh] / ˌsɔl fɛˈri nɔ, ˌsɒl fəˈri noʊ /

noun

1. a village in southeastern Lombardy, in northern Italy: battle 1859.

2. (lowercase) a dye obtained from rosaniline.

3. (lowercase) vivid purplish pink.

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solferino British  

/ ˌsɒlfəˈriːnəʊ /

noun

1. 1. a moderate purplish-red colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      a solferino suit

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Etymology

Origin of Solferino

First recorded in 1865–70; dye so named from its being discovered after the battle of Solferino

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Example Sentences

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The show is on view from Tuesday through June 10 at Via Solferino 11.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

I stopped on the Solferino bridge to look at the lights filtered through a cold mist.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 1, 2015

After abandoning active efforts at a political comeback in 1953, he continued to drive into Paris from Colombey once a week to hold court in his Spartan Left Bank office on the Rue de Solferino.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once a week, in his six-year-old Citroen, he is driven to the shabby Left Bank office building at 5 Rue de Solferino that houses the Paris headquarters of the Rally of the French People.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scheibert, the Prussian, chatted with him about the Battle of Solferino.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

A solferino neck-tie and tall hat of a pie-Adamite formation transmogrified our Mowing Machine friend.

From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

The latter, however, should be so placed that its trying solferino does not make a bad color clash.

From Making A Rock Garden by H. S. (Henry Sherman) Adams

We’ll paint the Langham a fine bright solferino, when the church parade is over.’

From A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Them cheeks is now a deep solferino colour," he observed, and Patty's flushed face had to break into smiles.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Carolyn Wells

Aniline red, magenta, azaleine, rubine, solferino, fuchsine, chryaline, roseine, erythrobenzine, and others, are colouring matters in this group which are salts of rosaniline, and which are all recognised in commerce.

From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. Martin

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