Titian red

adjective

1. (sometimes not capital) reddish-gold, like the hair colour used in many of the works of Titian

Example Sentences

Her hair is uncommonly beautiful,--golden, with a shimmer of Titian red.

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The locale was appropriate: opera was more comfortable in that city of intrigue and sensuousness, and Titian red was better suited to its grand theatricality than the umber of Tuscany.

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Ruby was certainly the flower of the family—an extremely engaging young person of about ten, whose mischievous golden-brown eyes had long and curling lashes, and whose vivacious face was set off by a thick mane of deepest Titian red.

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Mona was a beauty, who earned her own living as a teacher, and had the little virtues of the profession well marked; truly a daughter of the gods, tall for a woman, with a mocking face all sparkle and bloom, small eyes that flashed like gems, a sharp tongue, and a head of silken hair, now known as the Titian red, but at that time despised by all except artists and herself.

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She was a handsome girl, neither blonde nor brunette, with eyes of hazel gray and hair of that color that moderns call Titian red.

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