bronde

bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes)

Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.

I'm a bronde.

(countable) A person having this hair colour.


housefire

housefires (plural)
house (alternative)
fire (alternative)

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A large fire that occurs in a house, causing substantial damage.


firehall

Now there are four in the firehall around the clock.

2009 February 18, Carola Vyhnak, “Volunteer firefighters filled a burning need”, in Toronto Star:

Alternative form of fire hall (“fire station”)


black as the ace of spades

en-adj

black as the ace of spades (not comparable)


watchnight

watchnights (plural)
watch night (alternative)
Watch Night (alternative)
watch-night (alternative)

New Year's Eve

whereas watch night is the night that begins at sundown on New Year's Eve and ends with sunrise on New Year's Day

not identical to watchnight – New Year's Eve is the entire day before New Year's Day

And there is one night in the year I have always observed – the good old Methodist vigil called Watch-night, popularly described as "seeing the old year out and the new year in." […] I have only been a Methodist once a year; and peculiar, accordingly, have my watch-night emotions been. There stands the old portico in —— street; can it be a year since I ascended those steps? These are the aisles, the columns, the pulpit, the recess with its inscriptions, the Christmas evergreens yet fresh over the Communion Table – silent preachers all, that seem to say: "You and I are a year older, friend; but we have seen more watch-nights than you, and are likely to see more yet;[…]["]

1861, “Watch-night in the Channel”, in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, London: The Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 260:

This was the first watchnight meeting among the Methodists. The people met at half-past eight; the house was filled from end to end; and "we concluded the year," says [John] Wesley, "wrestling with God in prayer, and praising Him for the wonderful work which He had already wrought upon the earth."

1872, L[uke] Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., Founder of the Methodists. … In Three Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 333:

Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration: Order of Watchnight Service to be Held in Every Wesleyan-Methodist Place of Worship in Great Britain on the Night of Monday, 31st December, 1900, Being the Last Night of the Nineteenth Century

[1900], Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration, London, Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney, →OCLC, cover title:

The first watch night services ever held in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church were but poorly attended, […]

1901 January 1, “Watch Night Services”, in The New York Times, page 2:

Watchnight. December 31 This is a midnight service that summarizes the past year. In recent centuries, the Moravians and early Methodists have celebrated it as a vigil service focusing on newness, the spiritual life, and covenants.

1999, R. Mark Liebenow, And Everyone Shall Praise: Resources for Multicultural Worship, Cleveland, Oh.: United Church Press, →ISBN, page 77:

(Christianity) A religious service involving a review of the past year and preparation for the year ahead participated in by Methodists and members of other Christian denominations which starts late on New Year's Eve and ends after midnight on New Year's Day; hence, the night that begins on December 31 and ends on January 1.


megafire

Coordinate term: megastorm

This increase means that almost every aspect of the Earth’s climate system is now influenced by humanity, and the consequences – droughts, heatwaves, megafires, melting glaciers and rising oceans – are now well understood.

2015 November 20, Tim Flannery, “Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet”, in The Guardian:

There remains much that can be done to limit the damage to come, to brace against the coming megafires and superstorms and save lives and hold onto a thriving civilization.

2020 September 22, John Branch, Brad Plumer, “Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In”, in New York Times:

Across the Western United States, a summer of record-breaking drought, heat waves and megafires exacerbated by climate change is forcing millions of people to confront an inescapable string of disasters that challenge the future of growth.

2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A very large wildfire, typically one covering more than 100,000 acres.


albous

Whites:- albous or albus is a pure white […]

1841, Edward Newman, John Van Voorst, A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; Being a New and Greatly Improved Edition of The Grammar of Entomology:

Frons: piceous, scarcely convex; rugose-punctate; sparse, lanceolate, small, griseo-albous squamae.

1940, Stanford University, Natural History Museum, Microentomology: Contributions to Entomology from the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Volumes 5-8:

These included dark coloured flower, light coloured flower, albous flower, pink flower, red flower, small flower, biflorate and triflorate mutants.

1998, Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India, The Journal of Cytology and Genetics, Volume 33:


nigrous

Of pillared mists, in nigrous smoking gloom, […]

1816, George Thomas, Freedom; with other poems:

Sternum: nigrous, clad less densely with longer, usually fusiform, similarly colored squamae; […]

At this hour, just before dawn, another nigrous presence came hovering over him to darken his face.

2008, Glen Craney, The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ:


heliocentricity

The quality of being heliocentric; heliocentrism.


coccineous

From Latin coccineus, suffixed with -ous.

coccineous:

This is allied to Lanieri, but is at once distinguished by the thorax, posterior coxae, femora and tibiae being entirely coccineous, and the four anterior legs black.

1872, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:

The species is well distinguished in its soft delicate texture, much convoluted plicate thallus, bright coccineous medulla up to the apices of the laciniae, […]

1975, Dharani Dhar Awasthi, A monograph of the lichen genus Dirinaria:

Because I have over 300 photos and no longer a limit of 24-27 shots on this new camera, I was able to snap a couple of pictures of this coccineous bird.

2007, Sand-dee Rose Waybill, The Fortieth Year of a Wollongong Woman:


cinerous

From Latin cinereus, suffixed with -ous.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cinerous.

Alternative form of cinereous (“ash-colored”)


badious

From Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut colored”), with the suffix adapted to -ous.

uder

Head castaneous; thorax latericious; abdomen badious; legs ochraceous.

1898, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 26, Linnean Society of London:

Abdomen subovate and short; basal segment apically badious with postpetiole punctate, […]

1919, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

Its branching type and vaguely badious colour suggest a close relationship with B. spiralifera, which shares the same habitat.

1977, Societas, Opera Botanica, Issues 41-45:

badious:

badious:


pyromanic

Several pyromanic boys before coming to the Orthogenic School set fires because they so much enjoyed watching the pumps throw streams of water at burning buildings.

1954, Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic wounds: puberty rites and the envious male, page 186:


aureolin

In preparing a palette for it the colors used were aureolin, cobalt, crimson-lake, yellow ochre, brown ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, light-red […]

aureolin:

A yellow pigment used in painting, composed of potassium cobaltinitrite.


pyrophilia

A paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.


burst into flames

en-verb

burst into flames (third-person singular simple present bursts into flames, present participle bursting into flames, simple past and past participle burst into flames)

bursts into flames (present singular third-person)
bursting into flames (participle present)
burst into flames (participle past)
burst into flames (past)

People on their way to work / And baby, what do you expect? / Gonna burst into flames

1983, Talking Heads (lyrics and music), “Burning Down the House”, in Speaking in Tongues:

burst into flame
burst into flame#English


fire lane

firefighting apparatus
firefighting apparatus

(US) A passageway or access road that allows a firefighting apparatus such as a fire engine to pass through.

消防通道

passageway that allows a fire engine to pass through


chamber lamp

Position the battery toggle switch (10) figure 4-5 to BATTERY. If the fog chamber lamp illuminates, the indicator is operational.

1984, DS and GS Maintenance Manual, page 4-16:

When the battery is inserted into the MH26/26a charger properly (it's impossible to insert it incorrectly), the battery chamber lamp (labeled L and R) above each chamber will flash slowly while the battery is being replenished.

2014, David Busch, David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D4/D4s, →ISBN:

In a classic example (e.g., Skinner 1938; Herrick et al. 1959), a rat's lever presses produce food when a chamber lamp is turned on, while presses in the absence of the light produce nothing.

2015, Florence D. DiGennaro Reed, Derek D. Reed, Autism Service Delivery, →ISBN, page 26:

An indicator light associated with a chamber.


statite

A hypothetical type of artificial satellite that uses light sails to maneuver.


light intensity

en-noun

light intensity (countable and uncountable, plural light intensities)

The amount of light emitted by a light source.


army green

army green (countable and uncountable, plural army greens)

Any of several hues of dull green used by various militaries for their uniforms.


mesonoxian

From meso- (“middle”) + Latin nox (“night”) + -ian.

af

A tumble would have had serious consequences. It had been unforgivable recklessness, but also tremendously sexy. YouTube found the graphic documentation of my mesonoxian madness too explicit but it was present on a few other video sites […]

2014, Malcolm James Thomson, TheodoraLand:

Glancing at the gold clock on the mantelpiece I see that it is already midnight, the most potent time of night for Lazarus witches, so that all our most important events are timed to start to coincide with the mesonoxian hour.

2014, Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch:

Mesonoxian wanderer, bathed in moonlit shadows […]

2015, Dena M. Ferrari, Charmed Times Three, page 110:


gunmetal gray

en-noun

gunmetal gray (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetal grays)

She's wearing a gunmetal gray dress that’s tasteful in front, and practically obscene from the back.

2012, John Locke, Wish List (Donovan Creed), John Locke Books, →ISBN, page 18:

(US) Alternative spelling of gunmetal grey.


Smokey Bear

Smokey Bears (plural)
Smokey (alternative)
Smokey the Bear (alternative)
smokey bear (alternative)
smokey (alternative)

From an ad campaign first introduced in 1944 by Foote, Cone and Belding in cooperation with the Forest Service and the Ad Council. The name was was inspired by “Smokey” Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who suffered burns and blindness during a bold 1922 rescue. (Later, in 1950, an actual burned black bear cub was named Smokey and took on this symbolic role.)

There were two of them— a man and a woman wearing neat Smokey Bears.

1989, J. Edward Ames, Spellcaster, →ISBN, page 160:

They swaggered around in their Smokey Bears, as if a felt hat would intimidate a short-fused grenade.

2011, Robert Buettner, Orphanage: Jason Wander series - Book 1, →ISBN:

He stood with feet splayed, fists resting on his hips as he stared at us from beneath the brim of his Smokey Bear.

2013, Glenn Starkey, Amazon Moon, →ISBN, page 36:

A few minutes later, I saw two old gunnery sergeants sashaying towards us, wearing shooting jackets and campaign hats! As soon as I saw these Smokey Bears bobbing over to us, I figured this could be some show.

2014, Charles Stronge, Sniper in Action: History, Equipment, Techniques, →ISBN:


handcrew

A team of firefighters responsible for constructing firelines.


superluminous spiral galaxy

superluminous spiral galaxy (plural superluminous spiral galaxies)

(astronomy) a type of supergiant spiral galaxy of the local universe that is much larger than most giant spiral galaxies, and whose stellar creation rate is much higher than typical spiral galaxies because it is more luminous


FAST

Coined in recognition of the word fast, e.g. (medical sense) describing the need for speedy diagnosis and treatment.

cerebrovascular accident
cerebrovascular accident#English

(medicine, pathology) Acronym of facial drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, time. A mnemonic for diagnosing a cerebrovascular accident (“CVA”) or stroke.


backflash

The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.


hoseman

A firefighter who carries and directs the hose.


trench effect

The phenomenon of a fire rushing quickly up an inclined surface, due to a combination of the Coandă effect (which causes the fire to hug the inclined surface) and flashover (where the surface of a space near the fire — in this case the surface of the more elevated regions of the incline — is heated until it self-ignites).


Swedish torch

A fire made from a single log partially split and then set upright, with tinder and kindling placed inside the split.


Perkin's mauve

Discovered in 1856 by William Henry Perkin, a chemistry student, during an attempted synthesis of quinine.


FDNY

“It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.

2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:

Initialism of Fire Department of New York.


gingerous

en-adj

gingerous (comparative more gingerous, superlative most gingerous)

more gingerous (comparative)
most gingerous (superlative)

Mrs. Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr. Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:


blicant

blicant (comparative more blicant, superlative most blicant)

more blicant (comparative)
most blicant (superlative)

From Middle English blycande, blykkande, blikande, variants of blikiende, blikinde (“shining”), equivalent to blike + -and.


knife-coloured

knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)

more knife-coloured (comparative)
most knife-coloured (superlative)

Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]

1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:

There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.

Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.


dayshield

dayshields (plural)
day-shield (alternative)

From day + shield. Compare also Old English dæġsċeald (“dayshield, screen”) of identical formation.

cog

The lamps overhead were beginning to dim; in a few minutes, the dayshields would slide back, revealing the transparent canopy and allowing the remote suns to peer in—dispassionate observers hidden behind the veils of distance.

Caleb continued to hold his gaze until the familiar grating of the dayshields lowering diverted his attention back over to the terrace doors.

The shelter of the day-shield moved across the heavens; the wise Lord had covered over the path of the sun with a sail in such a way that men dwelling on earth could not detect the mast-ropes, […]

2013, Samantha Zacher, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse:

“They used it but they had better weapons. Sunblades, lightspears, dayshields, armour made from sungold. They picked up the knowledge from the Angels of the Sun when they warred against the Old Ones in the Dawn Ages of the World.”

(chiefly science fiction, fantasy) A protection from daylight; a screen


black as Newgate's knocker

en-adj

black as Newgate's knocker (not comparable)

(UK, simile) Completely black in colour.


sun-dry

en-verb

sun-dry (third-person singular simple present sun-dries, present participle sun-drying, simple past and past participle sun-dried)

sun-dries (present singular third-person)
sun-drying (participle present)
sun-dried (participle past)
sun-dried (past)

(transitive) To dry in the sun, especially food.


silver bromide

(inorganic chemistry) the silver salt of hydrobromic acid, AgBr, sometimes used in photographic papers


scance

In silk an' sattin ilk ane scances,
An gauze beside,
They've loupit o'er a' sort o' fences
Wi perfect pride.

1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, Etc, page 128:

And look at the scance that comes frae his bonny een.

1897, George Stirling's Heritage: A Story of Chequered Love, page 34:

If you are still hovering on the outskirts of our charmed brotherhood, I wish I could describe for you the smoothness—the mildness—the benevolent after-glow on your skin—the incomparable luxury of a scance with Mennen's.

1910, Dominion Medical Monthly and Ontario Medical Journal:

The succeeding scances may even be prolonged to twenty or twenty-five minutes, but it will then be necessary to use light massage to the part exposed to the electric rays.

Ordinarily a temperature from 200 to 350 degrees is sufficient, with scances from thirty to sixty minutes, followed, when there is stasis or a weak circulation, by the “Morton wave current.”

1910, International Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 23, page 280:

Guillermin believes it better to bring about a temporary suspension of ovarian function by radiotherapy and cites two cases; in one by four treatments in four days; in the other seventeen treatments in the period of one year. The scances were of five minutes for each ovary.

1921, Iowa Medical Society, Journal of the Iowa Medical Society, volume 11, page 327:

(medicine, obsolete) A dose of radiation.

The members of the club were all eager to debate such matters as poetry, art, religion, music, and natural science with open minds. From these creative scances were born many of the ideas that contributed to the Industrial Revolution, as well as its financial sponsoring.

2012, Ebbe Almqvist, History of Industrial Gases, →ISBN:


scance

scance (third-person singular simple present scances, present participle scancing, simple past and past participle scanced)

scances (present singular third-person)
scancing (participle present)
scanced (participle past)
scanced (past)

I marvell our records nothing at all
Do mention Wallace going into France;
How that can be forgote I greatlie scance;

1638, Henry Adamson, The Muses Threnodie:

But, as I said, she scanced the time o' nicht,
Gaed for a dip, and held it to the licht.

1869, William Lindsay, Auld Yule, and other poems, page 33:

(Scotland, obsolete) To reflect on; to consider.


spit fire

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His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.

2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:

Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.

2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:

Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.

2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:


olivescent

Becoming olive; approaching an olive colour.


YORP effect

From the first letters of the surnames Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii and Paddack + effect. Coined in 2000 by American geophysicist David Perry Rubincam.

(astrophysics) The effect of solar radiation on an asymmetric asteroid or other small body whereby its rate of rotation increases, potentially leading to the object's eventual disintegration.


radiothermoluminescence

en-noun

radiothermoluminescence (countable and uncountable, plural radiothermoluminescences)

For low-density polyethylene (LDPE), two radiothermoluminescence scintillations peaked at –120 and –40°C.

2002, Kenneth E. Bower, Yuri A. Barbanel, Yuri G. Shreter, Polymers, Phosphors, and Voltaics for Radioisotope Microbatteries, page 176:

(physics) Thermoluminescence; the release of previously absorbed radiation upon being heated.


sunlight is the best disinfectant

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant," said Puccio in explaining his decision to open the proceeding to reporters.

1989 January 5, Phil Berger, “Lawyers Slug It Out In Tyson-Cayton Case”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-01-08:

The basic premise of a scoop is that you're bringing important facts to public attention. Your philosophical touchstone is Justice Louis Brandeis' bromide that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

1999 March 15, Michael Kinsley, “The Trouble with Scoops”, in Time, retrieved 2016-01-08:

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant," he said. "We must change our practices and our mindset, moving from a culture of secrecy to one of complete openness and accountability."

2009 June 21, Catherine Bennett, “No one gains from blowing the cover of this secret policeman”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2016-01-08:

(usually public policy or management) Transparency about the workings of an organization prevents corruption.

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It


light minute

Rick: We got some business to attend to a few light minutes south of here.

2015, "Mortynight Run", season 2, episode 2 of Rick and Morty [Rick and Morty are travelling in a spaceship]

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one minute.


polarizance

polarizance (countable and uncountable, plural polarizances)

Am A 13, 1106 (1996)] any depolarizing Mueller matrix can be transformed into a reduced form which accumulates the depolarization and polarizance properties into a set of seven parameters.

2015, Jose J. Gil, Ignacio San Jose, “Reduced form of a Mueller matrix”, in arXiv:

(physics) The ability to produce polarized light


Lantern Festival

the Lantern Festival (plural Lantern Festivals)

the Lantern Festival (canonical)
Lantern Festivals (plural)

From the carrying and displaying of lanterns during such festivals.

A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).


fire triangle

The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).


burninate

en-verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

burninates (present singular third-person)
burninating (participle present)
burninated (participle past)
burninated (past)

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Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

(slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.


wolf-grey

His coat was the true wolf-grey, and to all appearances he was a true wolf himself.

1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 6, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 171:

wolf-grey:

A grey colour, as that of the fur of a wolf.


rain fire and brimstone

rain fire and brimstone (third-person singular simple present rains fire and brimstone, present participle raining fire and brimstone, simple past and past participle rained fire and brimstone)

rains fire and brimstone (present singular third-person)
raining fire and brimstone (participle present)
rained fire and brimstone (participle past)
rained fire and brimstone (past)

A reference to the The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Psalms 11:6: “Upon the wicked hee [God] shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.”

That day I raised my hand and swore obedience and loyalty to God, country and the Marine Corps, not necessarily in that order, and promised to rain fire and brimstone upon all enemies happened to be only two weeks after the buildup of troops began in Vietnam with the landing of the Ninth Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Da Nang on 9 March 1965.

2003, Ray Hildreth, Charles W. Sasser, chapter 1, in Hill 488, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 20–21:

"After punching him, and making a report, how do I go back and with a ridiculous question like that?" / "Unless you think I am lying you have to. You have no choice." / "What if I don't?" / "I will rain fire and brimstone on you."

2012 March 26, William deGraftColeman, chapter 19, in The Gods Declare, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 206:

Even before the global financial crisis flared up, various critics and interested parties rained fire and brimstone upon globalization on several counts. Globalization hampered efforts to shield the environment and lift the living standards of workers. In developed countries cheap foreign imports seemingly turned domestic workers out of doors.

2013, Larry Allen, “Overview”, in The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, pages 9–10:

Cyrus Barron straightened to his full height and looked for all the world like some old revival preacher raining fire and brimstone on his congregation.

2015, Silver James, chapter 17, in Cowgirls Don’t Cry (Harlequin Desire), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 178:

Yet, if [Chris] Colabello is clean and this really was an accident, then he’d better fight the results with all his might. He’d better rain fire and brimstone down on supplement companies.

2016 April 23, Dirk Hayhurst, “Colabello’s entire fairy tale now under suspicion”, in The Sports Network, archived from the original on 2016-07-25:

(transitive, idiomatic) To send horror or destruction.


bee purple

en-noun

bee purple (countable and uncountable, plural bee purples)

Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:

A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).


lightning bolt

Shortly after dinner one day — it was a hot summer afternoon — a very severe thunderstorm broke out over the city and after it had lasted some ten to fifteen minutes an exceptionally bright lightning bolt flashed through the air followed immediately by a terrific crash of thunder.

1913, Popular Electricity and the World's Advance, page 192:

A single, visible discharge of lightning.

A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line.

A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch.


blue fire

blue fire (usually uncountable, plural blue fires)

(UK, slang, dated) Sensational romanticism.


dirty thunderstorm

dirty thunderstorm (plural dirty thunderstorms)

A weather phenomenon that is related to the production of lightning within a volcanic plume.


Like 911, 119, etc., selected as a number both fast and easy to call from rotary or touch-tone phones and less likely to be mistakenly dialed.

The telephone number for emergency services in Iran.

110 handles police emergencies in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea but fires and medical emergencies have a separate number, 119.

The telephone number for law enforcement in China, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, Bolivia, Guatamala, Andorra, Nauru, and the Ivory Coast and on Taiwan.

The telephone number for ambulance services in Jamaica, Syria, and Sri Lanka.

The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Norway, Jamaica, Suriname, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Papua New Guinea.


The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.


luminar

Those who are familiar with the laws of interference, of the polarization of light, &c, know, that, according to the wave theory, the luminar vibrations are not longitudinal, like the vibrations of sound […]

1848, John Bernhard Stallo, General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature:


tubelight

tubelights (plural)
tube light (alternative)

From tube + light. The "dim-witted person" sense arises from their flickering as well as the length of time it takes for one to light up completely after being switched on.

And Modiji, also being Snarkyji, described Rahulji as a tubelight because Rahulji had interjected only a good 40 minutes after Modiji had launched into his Parliamentary speech.

2020 February 7, “Tubelight and other insults”, in Deccan Herald:

(chiefly India, slang) a dim-witted person; someone who is slow to understand or reply.


fireman's flap

(slang) The flap for defecation in a union suit.


lime green

lime green (countable and uncountable, plural lime greens)

lime greens (plural)
lime-green (alternative)

A bright, light-green colour, like that of a lime.


gunmetal grey

gunmetal grey (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetal greys)

gunmetal greys (plural)
gunmetal gray (alternative)

gunmetal grey:

A dark grey colour with a tint of blue; gunmetal.


gunmetal-gray

(US) Alternative spelling of gunmetal-grey.


Hollywood cerise

From the series of color pencils named Venus Paradise.

Hollywood cerise:


ultra pink

ultra pink (Crayola shocking pink):

A very bright pink color, related to shocking pink.


palatinate purple

palatinate purple:


salmon-coloured

en-adj

salmon-coloured (comparative more salmon-coloured, superlative most salmon-coloured)

more salmon-coloured (comparative)
most salmon-coloured (superlative)

salmon:

Having a pale pinkish colour, as of cooked salmon.


Skobeloff green

Skobeloff green:

There is one very bright empire green, and those shades of bluish green to which new names have been affixed, i.e., Troika, Strogoif and Skobeloff; also two series of bright pinks and reds.

1904, “Color card notice”, in Millinery Trade Review, volume 29, page 18:

The colors that dominated were black, brown and Skobeloff green, giving the space a calm, natural vibe.


Eddington limit

en-noun

Eddington limit (plural Eddington limits)

Named after British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington

named-after

Eddington luminosity
Eddington luminosity#English

(physics) Synonym of Eddington luminosity


drop tank

(firefighting) A portable tank used at the scene of a fire to hold water from the fire engine.


Evans blue

Named after Herbert McLean Evans, an American chemist.

(organic chemistry) An azo dye with very high affinity for serum albumin.


tiller truck

From tiller + truck. From having rear-wheel steering similar to a boat's tiller, on the truck.

A type of firetruck, an aerial ladder truck that is articulated with a tillerman's position to steer the rear of the trailer into tight spaces.


spirit blue

A blue aniline dye used as an indicator in agar for detection of lipase activity in bacteria.


bainin

en-noun

bainin (countable and uncountable, plural bainins)

Borrowed from Irish báinín, from bán (“white”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

By the time it had some of the dirt and grease removed (part scouring) it had become the creamy natural colour (bainin) with which we are all familiar, and although the patterns are worked in other fashion colours and yarns, the true Aran is only made from the thickish bainin woolen yarn.

2012, Shelagh Hollingworth, Traditional Aran Knitting, page 14:

(Ireland) the creamy white colour of such yarn or cloth


vespering

“O vespering bird, how do you know”

1910, Thomas Hardy, The Year’s Awakening:

(poetic) westward; moving toward the setting sun.


pyromachy

The general-in-chief of pyromachy was holding in readiness a detail outfitted with supplies of tinder and torches for emergency incendiary action.

1950, Paul Frischauer, So great a queen: the story of Esther, Queen of Persia, page 313:


footlighted

a footlighted stage


sidereal month

The time in which the moon passes round the ecliptic to the same star: 27.3217 days.


dust-colored

en-adj

dust-colored (comparative more dust-colored, superlative most dust-colored)

more dust-colored (comparative)
most dust-colored (superlative)
dust-coloured (alternative)
dustcolored (alternative)
dustcoloured (alternative)

In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.

1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:


Star of Bethlehem

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(biblical) The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.


solifugal

From Latin sōl (“sun”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

(astronomy, rare) Moving away from the sun.


Egyptian blue

en-noun

Egyptian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptian blues)

From Egyptian + blue, from being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians.

calcium copper tetrasilicate
calcium copper tetrasilicate#English

A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.

Chinese purple

the first artificial purple, one of the first artificial pigments

Prussian blue

the first artificial pigment widely used in the modern world; not an ancient pigment


Han purple

From Han + purple.
From being a purple pigment last used during the Han Dynasty.

barium copper disilicate
barium copper disilicate#English

A pigment made from barium copper disilicate (BaCuSi₂O₆), the first artificial purple pigment, used by Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty.

Egyptian blue

the first artificial pigment, and chemically similar to Han purple


Mountbatten pink

Mountbatten pink (countable and uncountable, plural Mountbatten pinks)

Named after the British naval officer Lord Mountbatten.

Mountbatten pink:

Before long all the destroyers in his flotilla were painted medium grey with a dash of Venetian red, a tone that quickly became known as Mountbatten pink.

2016, Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour:

(historical) A pinkish-grey camouflage colour, used to paint several ships of the British Royal Navy during World War II.


Camotint

Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'

1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:

But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.

2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:

Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:

(historical) Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.


biliblanket

Blend of bilirubin + blanket, originally a brand name, BiliBlanket, trademarked by General Electric's Datex Ohmeda subsidiary, coined in the early 1990s.

The advantage to the biliblanket is that the infant's eyes do not need to be covered as long as the biliblanket is shielded and continuous phototherapy is provided even when holding or feeding the infant.

1997, Wendy L. Votroubek, Julie Townsend, Pediatric Home Care, →ISBN, page 281:

Biliblankets are used as another way of giving a jaundiced baby phototherapy treatment.

2003, Nikki Bradford, Your Premature Baby: The First Five Years, →ISBN, page 28:

For more severe cases a biliblanket may be recommended. It's a special blanket that wraps around the baby and works like concentrated sunlight to break down the bilirubin.

2016, Andrea Purcell, Over 35 and Pregnant, →ISBN:

Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.


French white

An especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


red-billed

(Of a bird species) having a red coloured beak or bill.


choleglobin

A bile pigment that is a breakdown product of hemoglobin


dark blue

dark blue (countable and uncountable, plural dark blues)

A deep, dim blue colour: navy or similar.

كحلي

a deep, dim blue colour — see also navy, navy blue


light blue

light blue (countable and uncountable, plural light blues)

From Middle English light blewe, equivalent to light + blue.

A pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.


wine-dark

The traditional translation/calque of Ancient Greek οἶνοψ (oînops), equivalent to wine + dark.

Near-synonyms: vinous, vinaceous, wine-blue, winelike

He had that type of countenance which dim tradition was already beginning to assign to the Son of Man—the perfectly oval face, the waved and wine-dark hair, the glowing complexion, the eyes whose depths seemed to be lighted by some holy spiritual flame within—of Him who had been fairer than the children of men.

2015, Frederic W. Farrar, Gathering Clouds: A Tale of The Days of Saint Chrysostom:

The Trojan War was probably real enough, but the myths of Aeneas crossing the wine-dark Mediterranean to lay the foundations of the Roman Empire in Italy, and Brutus's subsequent journey to fill Britain with descendants of the Trojans, are myths.

2015, Anthony Adolph, Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British, page 200:

en:resembling wine, in its dark color or otherwise

(literary, especially of the sea) Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of red wine.

wine-dark:

Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.


wine-dark

wine-dark:

A specific color among several that represent red wine.


blue-gray

en-adj

blue-gray (comparative more blue-gray, superlative most blue-gray)

more blue-gray (comparative)
most blue-gray (superlative)
blue-grey (alternative)

blue-gray:

аҡбуҙ

color — see also the hyponyms listed above

күк

can mean 'blue', 'gray', 'blue-gray', or 'green'

åskblå (dark gray-blue, literally "thunder[storm sky] color")

blunket

a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray


blue-grey

blue-grey (comparative more blue-grey, superlative most blue-grey)

more blue-grey (comparative)
most blue-grey (superlative)


gray-blue

gray-blue (comparative more gray-blue, superlative most gray-blue)

more gray-blue (comparative)
most gray-blue (superlative)


grey-blue

grey-blue (comparative more grey-blue, superlative most grey-blue)

more grey-blue (comparative)
most grey-blue (superlative)

Alternative form of gray-blue: Synonym of blue-gray


light wave

light waves (plural)
lightwave (alternative)

electromagnetic wave
electromagnetic wave

(physics) An electromagnetic wave of light.


takiltu

(historical) An Akkadian blue or purple dye.


lunarist

lunarists (plural)
Lunarist (alternative)

It can be safely stated, that so far as actual facts can be brought forward that are worthy of consideration, and so far as observations have been made by the very few who have already taken the trouble to examine the subject in a philosophical spirit, the lunarists have a very strong basis to work upon, and enough to encourage them to persevere in order to attain still more decided results; while the anti-lunarists have signally failed in predicting the weather and storms, also in deducing anything likely to crush the popular belief, or to satisfy the scientific inquirer.

1865, Walter Lord Browne, The moon and the weather, page 90:

The most recent adventurer in the direction of formulating a theory of the moon's influence on the weather is Mr. Hugh Clements, whose name is probably already familiar to many of our readers as that of a lunarist whose "long distance" predictions of weather have not infrequently appeared in the public press.

1904, The Meteorological Magazine, volume 38, page 10:

Even if FitzRoy did entertain doubts about the moon's influence on weather, he certainly never gave the moon the slightest consideration when he was compiling his forecasts. Others, apart from Saxby, also charged Fitzroy with being a lunarist. FitzRoy denied this vehemently, but it is easy to see from some of his writing why people might think he remained uncommitted.

2012, Jerry Lockett, The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the Tumultuous Birth of Weather Forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869:

(obsolete or historical) One who believes in the influence of the Moon on the weather of the Earth.


enfouldered

From en- + + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), + -ed.

With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

That there should be no proper conductor guiding it towards a source of light that might really aid us to see, makes the whole piece appear shaded by error, ombres chinoises; but shadow though there be, it does nothing to remove the enfouldered crack from the wall, and the charred signature such power always leaves behind.

2001, Walter Tonetto, Exiled in Language:


light hour

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one hour


cresolphthalein

en-noun

cresolphthalein (countable and uncountable, plural cresolphthaleins)

(organic chemistry) A derivative of phenolphthalein used as a pH indicator


firebell

(firefighting) An alarm bell sounded in the event of a fire.


chalk-white

en-adj

chalk-white (comparative more chalk-white, superlative most chalk-white)

more chalk-white (comparative)
most chalk-white (superlative)
chalkwhite (alternative)

I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet / chalk-white and oh so frail / I see our time has gotten stale

1998, Eve 6 (lyrics and music), “Inside Out”, in Eve 6:

Six utterly chalk-white people were cramped together beneath the parasol, sharing the little circle of shadow it was casting down onto the moderately sundrenched beach.


carboxyeosin

en-noun

carboxyeosin (countable and uncountable, plural carboxyeosins)

(organic chemistry) Any carboxy derivative of eosin, but especially 5(6)-carboxyeosin whose diacetate is used as a fluorescent dye


Christmas light

Christmas light (plural Christmas lights)

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(chiefly in the plural) One of the electric lights, often arranged in strings, used at Christmas to decorate a Christmas tree, outdoor trees or bushes, a house, etc.

luz de Natal (usually in the plural "luzes de Natal")

solas Nollaige (usually in the plural "solais Nollaige")

luz de Navidad (usually in the plural "luces de Navidad")


crushed strawberry

(art) A pinkish-red colour like strawberries that have been crushed.


pyrrhous

en-adj

pyrrhous (comparative more pyrrhous, superlative most pyrrhous)

more pyrrhous (comparative)
most pyrrhous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós) + -ous.


fast-evolving luminous transient

en-noun

fast-evolving luminous transient (plural fast-evolving luminous transients)

fast-evolving luminous transients (plural)

(astronomy) A type of weak supernova whose luminous shell cools quickly and within days goes dark


fireground

(firefighting) The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred.


photoreversibility

(physical chemistry) The condition of being photoreversible


put to the torch

en-verb

put to the torch (third-person singular simple present puts to the torch, present participle putting to the torch, simple past and past participle put to the torch)

puts to the torch (present singular third-person)
putting to the torch (participle present)
put to the torch (participle past)
put to the torch (past)


Halligan bar

Halligan bars (plural)
halligan bar (alternative)

Named after its designer, New York City firefighter Hugh Halligan, in 1948.

A firefighter's multipurpose tool for breaking down doors, etc., having a claw (or fork), a blade, and a tapered pick.


snot-green

en-adj

snot-green (comparative more snot-green, superlative most snot-green)

more snot-green (comparative)
most snot-green (superlative)

snot-green:

Of a yellowish-green color like that of mucus.


bioillumination

illumination by means of bioluminescence


selenophile

From seleno- + -phile, literally “moon-lover”.

con

Accordingly, it seemed probable that by having X in Scheme 1 as SeR, then a selenophile such as copper(1) would promote the C-C bond formation as in Scheme 2 to yield the required systems.

1991 January 1, Craig J. Hawker, Athena Philippides, Alan R. Battersby, “Selenomethylpyrroles: Their Use for Synthesis of Dipyrrylmethanes (Dipyrrins), Tripyranes and Bilanes”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, →DOI:

The poisonvetches are obligate selenophiles and the selenium content accounts for their chief toxic effects.

1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 127:

(botany, chemistry) Something which tends to absorb selenium.

A selenophile, that's me. Are you a selenophile or a heliophile? A lunar lover or a solar lover?

2008 September 2, Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), →ISBN, page 303:

Good news for sky watchers and selenophiles, tonight’s full moon is set to be the biggest and brightest of the year, according to NASA.

2019 February 19, Wilder Davies, “Tonight's Super Snow Moon Will Be the Biggest Supermoon of 2019. Here's How to Watch”, in Time:

The celestial phenomenon is a must-see event for selenophiles hoping to see a total lunar eclipse and May’s full moon.

2022 May 13, Joe Mario Pedersen, “Blood Flower Moon blossoms over Orlando during total lunar eclipse & full moon”, in Orlando Sentinel:

(informal) A person who is fond of or interested in the Moon.


ray of sunshine

en-noun

ray of sunshine (plural rays of sunshine)


neep lantern

A third was a two-headed spectre, the upper one being a fiery head, that bore a suspicious resemblance to a neep lantern, and his body, or what should have been his body, was wrapped in a while sheet.

1873, Thomas Watson, Homely Pearls at Random Strung, page 270:

A neep lantern bobbing by the end of the palisade, near the Smith house, where a clutch of bairns stood in the footpath waiting for him.

2003, Heather Spears, The Flourish, page 347:

He always finished first in the annual Hallowe'en neep lantern competition though it was meant to be done by the pupils themselves.

2013, David M Addison, Confessions of a Banffshire Loon, page 288:

(Scotland) A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.


solarist

(derogatory) One who tends to overstate the role of the sun in explaining the roots of mythology.


floating light

(historical) A ship, bearing a light, moored on sunken rocks to warn sailors of danger.


freeburn

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds.

1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55:

These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined.

1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium:

Envirogel was only tested against two scenarios due to agent distribution system problems. Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.

1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:

In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.

2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page 121:


sulfoindocyanine

sulfoindocyanine (countable and uncountable, plural sulfoindocyanines)

(organic chemistry) A C-sulfate derivative of indocyanine that is a fluorescent dye


iron blue

Any of several blue pigments, but especially Prussian blue or Turnbull's blue.


Moon buggy

Moon buggies (plural)
moon buggy (alternative)

Blend of Moon + dune buggy.
Coined in analogy to the dune buggy, for a vehicle roving on the sands of the Moon.

A manned wheeled vehicle used to traverse the surface of Earth's Moon. It was used in Apollo 15, 16 and 17.


Bonney's blue

Named after British gynaecological surgeon Victor Bonney (1872–1953).

(gynaecology) An antiseptic solution used to sterilise and stain the vagina, cervix and surrounding skin during gynaecological procedures, and therefore reducing postoperative infection.


dansyl amide

(organic chemistry) The fluorescent dye 5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonamide


wine-blue

en-adj

wine-blue (comparative more wine-blue, superlative most wine-blue)

more wine-blue (comparative)
most wine-blue (superlative)
wineblue (alternative)
wine blue (alternative)

Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.

1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!

1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:

Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.

1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:

And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman:
Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk,
More of a drug than lotos-syrup.

1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:

The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths
That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes
And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]

2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:

Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.

en:of a color like that of dark wine, blue-purple variants

Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

wine-blue:

Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.


wine-blue

en-noun

wine-blue (countable and uncountable, plural wine-blues)

wine-blues (plural)
wineblue (alternative)
wine blue (alternative)

Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.

1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:

In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).

1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:

en:color like that of dark wine, blue-purple variants

Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.

wine-blue:

A specific color among several that represent red wine.


dry lightning

Lightning strikes that occur when there is no rain, thus a common cause of bushfires or forest fires.


olivegreen

en-adj

olivegreen (comparative more olivegreen, superlative most olivegreen)

more olivegreen (comparative)
most olivegreen (superlative)


sightening

A colour used temporarily to enable a calico-printer to judge the pattern.


china blue

en-noun

china blue (countable and uncountable, plural china blues)

china blue:


warlight

Methinks I see their sabers as they flashed in battle's sun, I seem to see the warlight fall on bayonet and gun; Before the farm-house gate I stand and listen for their tread, Forgetting that the mighty camps are guarded by the dead;

1896, Loomis' Musical and Masonic Journal - Volumes 30-31, page 221:

The issues of life and death have by the lurid warlight been forced upon our attention.

1917, Catherine Gasquoine Hartley, Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes, page 32:

We passed industrial buildings, their lights muted, faint as stars, as if we were in a time capsule of the war years when blackouts and curfews had been in effect, when there was just warlight and only blind barges were allowed to move along this stretch of river.

2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 81:

The light produced by acts of war, such as exploding bombs.


fulgural

en-adj

fulgural (comparative more fulgural, superlative most fulgural)

more fulgural (comparative)
most fulgural (superlative)

From Latin fulguralis, from fulgur (“lightning”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from Proto-Italic reconstructed as *folgos and related to the idea of flashing or lightening.

The Fulgural Books were an Etruscan guide to understanding the will of the gods through their supposed messages in lightning.

(uncommon) Of or related to lightning, particularly (historical) in reference to its use in divination.


photon sphere

The radius of the photon sphere is also the lower bound for any stable orbit.

For a Schwarzschild (non-spinning) black hole, the radius of the photon sphere is 1.5 times the Schwarzschild radius.

The redshift of light leaking outward from the photon sphere is #92;sqrt#123;3#125;-1#61;0.732. All light rays approaching a black hole closer than #92;sqrt#123;3#125; times the radius of the photon sphere spiral inwards and are captured (see Figure 13.5).

2000, Edward Harrison, Cosmology, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 250:

For a Kerr black hole though, one that has spin, the situation is different for the orbits near the black hole. In particular, there are two photon spheres, in contrast with the one photon sphere around a stationary Schwarzschild black hole. The outermost sphere is for photons that are orbiting oppositely to the direction of rotation of the black hole (the ones we say are on retrograde orbits). Inside this is the photon sphere for photons travelling in the same sense around the black hole as it is rotating (on prograde orbits). For a very slowly rotating black hole that isn't so very different from a Schwarzschild black hole, these two photon spheres are very nearly co-spatial. For black holes of increasing spin, these surfaces are increasingly further apart.

2015, Katherine Blundell, Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 44:

2017, Lori Gardi, The Mandelbrot Set as a Quasi-Black Hole, David de Hilster (editor), John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society: 2017 Proceedings, John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society, page 65,
The lesser known region just outside the black hole is referred to as the photon sphere (outer grey region in Figure 9). The photon sphere is a region of space just outside the black hole where photons are forced to travel in complex orbits due to the extreme curvature of space within this region [2]. […] Finally, the boundary that exactly separates the black hole from the photon sphere is referred to as the event horizon (white circle surrounding the black region in Figure 9).

The region inside the photon sphere has a diameter of 1.5× Schwarzschild diameter D(s), but due to the curvature, this region gets magnified to 2.6× D(s).

2022, Wouter Schmitz, Understanding Relativity, Springer, page 277:

(of a black hole) A spherical limit around a black hole at such distance that any photon meeting it tangentially is constrained to travel in a circular orbit; (more loosely) the region between this limit and the event horizon.

sphère de photons

spherical boundary surrounding a black hole in which photons travel in circular orbits


Bismarck brown

en-noun

Bismarck brown (countable and uncountable, plural Bismarck browns)

Either of a pair of brown dyes, Bismarck brown R and Bismarck brown Y.


burn in

en-verb

burn in (third-person singular simple present burns in, present participle burning in, simple past and past participle burned in or burnt in)

burns in (present singular third-person)
burning in (participle present)
burned in (participle past)
burned in (past)
burnt in (participle past)
burnt in (past)


solar-powered

Network Rail and Avanti West Coast have installed a solar-powered 'electronic scarecrow' to deter birds from entering Longsight depot in Manchester.

2020 September 23, “Network News: Longsight depot uses 'scarecrow'”, in Rail, page 26:

Of an engine, vehicle, device, etc., deriving its energy from sunlight through the use of solar cells.


azovan blue

(organic chemistry) Synonym of Evans blue


Faraday pointer

en-noun

Faraday pointer (plural Faraday pointers)

A pointer or torch/flashlight powered by a battery that may be recharged by shaking.


light field

A function of all the light flowing through all points of space in a particular volume


rose-pink

en-adj

rose-pink (comparative more rose-pink, superlative most rose-pink)

more rose-pink (comparative)
most rose-pink (superlative)


deluge gun

(firefighting) An aimable high-capacity water jet used in firefighting and fire protection systems.


trans-lunar injection

en-noun

trans-lunar injection (plural trans-lunar injections)

trans-lunar injections (plural)
TLI (alternative)

A maneuver that moves a spacecraft from orbit around the Earth onto a trajectory towards the Moon.


peachish

en-adj

peachish (comparative more peachish, superlative most peachish)

more peachish (comparative)
most peachish (superlative)


hydrocyanine

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of dyes that can detect reactive oxygen species, reacting to form cyanine


xylochrome

en-noun

xylochrome (countable and uncountable, plural xylochromes)

(archaic) A kind of dye derived from the tannin in wood.


flake white

From the way flakes of the pigment were created and fell off the base lead during the former Dutch or stack process.

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


five-alarm

(firefighting) The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.


range light

One of the lights on board ship placed to give a ready indication of changes of course to other vessels.


benzophenoxazine

(organic chemistry) Any of a certain class of dyes.


lightning strike

lightning strike (plural lightning strikes)

lightning never strikes twice in the same place

A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.


unlightable

From un- (“not”) + lightable (“capable of being lighted”).

pre

Incapable of being illuminated or made light or bright; unable to affix with a light.


set afire

en-verb

set afire (third-person singular simple present sets afire, present participle setting afire, simple past and past participle set afire)

sets afire (present singular third-person)
setting afire (participle present)
set afire (participle past)
set afire (past)

The house was set afire.


burn daylight

burn daylight (third-person singular simple present burns daylight, present participle burning daylight, simple past and past participle burned daylight or burnt daylight)

burns daylight (present singular third-person)
burning daylight (participle present)
burned daylight (participle past)
burned daylight (past)
burnt daylight (participle past)
burnt daylight (past)

Originally a reference to burning candles during the day.

O, Madam, no candles yet, I beseech you ; don't let us burn daylight.

1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, page 364:

It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for lights, which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning daylight.

The place was but scantily lighted, for the community at present could ill afford to burn daylight.

1879, George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie:

High on the list of iniquities was “burning daylight,” resorting to artificial light unnecessarily during the day.

2013, A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime:

To use artificial light during the daytime when one could simply use the sunlight.


burnination

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And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination.

2003 February 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #62: interview”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Check out what happened to this metal framed laser cutter when it was left unattended by maker Joe Schlessinger. Serious burnination.

2012 October 22, Joseph Flaherty, “DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2014-08-10:

From what the Dragonfire description said, it was blatantly obvious that those flames had far more properties and uses than pure burnination.

2018, J.A. Cipriano, Star Conqueror: Recompense, unnumbered page:

(informal, humorous) An instance of intense burning; conflagration.


burnination

Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.

A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


millennial pink

en-noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

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Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:

[…] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:

Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.

2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

millennial pink:


millennial pink

But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


dusty rose

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His heart leaped when he saw how fetching she looked in her afternoon dress, silk chiffon with pleated sleeves, in a becoming shade of dusty rose.

1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, page 80:

She'd locked the door of her Old Hollywood-inspired office, decorated in dusty rose and high-gloss white, […]

2009, Bridie Clark, The Overnight Socialite, page 138:

The sun was setting, and the Eiffel Tower was a dusty rose in the distance.

2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder, unnumbered page:

dusty rose:

A light, puce-like greyish pink color, like a rose covered in dust.


antique rose

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Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.

2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270:

The walls had been painted an antique-rose hue but he'd left the plates off the outlets.

2014, Christopher Golden, Snowblind, unnumbered page:

Just before eight o'clock, Sorcha finally settles on an outfit for the morning: we're talking a delaine twill blazer in antique rose by Theory, […]

2015, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Seedless in Seattle, unnumbered page:

antique rose:

A rosy pink color with a slight grayish tinge, like an old dried rose.


deluminate

en-verb

deluminate (third-person singular simple present deluminates, present participle deluminating, simple past and past participle deluminated)

deluminates (present singular third-person)
deluminating (participle present)
deluminated (participle past)
deluminated (past)

A modification of the above has a stopcock at the base for controlling the flow of gas into the burner, simultaneously admitting the proper proportion of air to deluminate the flame.

1902, Frank Julian, A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis:

The smoky deluminated lounge was a sunken scatter of driftwood booths and castaway tables.

1998, Writers Forum - Issues 24-26, page 52:

He watches the flickering black lights, as they deluminate, the world around him.

2008, Michael Stapp, Gravedust & Grace, page 52:

But I still would like to deluminate rooms and let only the light from the daffodil shine,


electric light

en-noun

electric light (countable and uncountable, plural electric lights)

As late as 1910, only 7 per cent of Londoners had electric light in their homes.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83:

Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination.

The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].

1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:


sunlit uplands

From sunlit (“illuminated by sunlight”) + uplands (“areas in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation”) (evoking a pleasant, happy place), popularized by its use in the “This was their finest hour” speech delivered by Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to the House of Commons on 18 June 1940: see the quotation.

We find in the nation as a whole, the people chosen of God to preserve his name and worship throughout many generations, moving on the sunlit uplands, while the world sat in shadow beneath.

1857, Scottish Society for the Conversion of Israel, “To the Jew first”, in The Friend of Israel, volumes III: January 1856 — February 1867, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, page 305:

A man, to see far, must climb to some height, and I was too much upon the plain in those days to catch even a glimpse of distant sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of self-sacrifice.

1898, Ralph Connor, Black Rock, a Tale of the Selkirks, Toronto: The Westminster Co., page 94:

[Adolf] Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

1940 June 18, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, “War Situation”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 362, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-23, column 61:

Whatever the misgivings might be, the future that these projects paint is bright. That just leaves the challenge of bridging the gap between today's rather gloomy situation and tomorrow's sunlit uplands.

2023 August 9, Philip Haigh, “Get the product and price right to tempt back commuters”, in RAIL, number 989, page 54:

(British, figuratively) A wished-for place or time of happiness and prosperity.

This was their finest hour
Winston Churchill


sunny uplands

The BTC carried out reviews of the Plan in 1956 and 1959, and continued to forecast that the sunny uplands of profitability would be reached by 1963.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:


downwell

The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation.

1981, Final Budget of Stanislaus County and Financial Report:

A 14-foot by 14-foot shaft, or downwell, located downstream of the intake structure permits flow to fall approximately 36 feet to a pool Torraed by a 10-foot deep rock trap.

1986, Robert L. Schuster, Landslide dams: processes, risk and mitigation, page 206:

You can make this system a downwell by adding a water source above the tanks.

1989, T. A. Broadley, William Edward Lorne Clayton, British Columbia Manila Clam Culture Workshop, page 167:

A six-foot diameter steel transportation pipe connects the downwell at the end of the collection channel to the upwell box at the existing juvenile fish facility. The downwell ensures that the pipe is pressurised and eliminates air entrainment.

1994, Lower Snake River Biological Drawdown Test, page 20:

The Furnish Canal juvenile fish bypass facility caused few injuries to fall chinook salmon test fish that traveled through the headworks canal, past the screens, and through the downwell, bypass pipe, and outlet when canal flow was 67% of maximum and bypass flow was at maximum.

1995, Evaluation of Juvenile Fish Bypass and Adult Fish Passage Facilities at Water Diversions on the Umatilla River, page 44:

A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.


cobalt green

cobalt green (countable and uncountable, plural cobalt greens)

cobalt green:

Any of various green inorganic pigments obtained by doping cobalt(II) oxide into colorless host oxides.


atomic tangerine

From the name of a fluorescent Crayola crayon released in 1972.

atomic tangerine:

The jokes are dust, and Blair, it is rumoured, is living on a jet full time, flying away from himself or, as I think more probable, under a spray-tan machine, staining himself that peculiar shade of orange that interior decorators call Atomic Tangerine, a fine mirror for his madness.

2016 April 2, Tanya Gold, “Bellanger review: a posh Islington restaurant for semi-ordinary people”, in The Spectator:

Becoming Trump requires a full hour of hair and makeup. He tapes three large photographs of the president, one in profile and two straight-on, to any mirror he’s using, and then uses Ben Nye CoCo Tan foundation to turn his skin the requisite shade of atomic tangerine, dabs on wrinkles, lengthens his nose, and so on.

2017 June 23, Jordan Kisner, “Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator”, in The Guardian:

Partida Creus’ “Cart Ver” is atomic tangerine in color and so delicious it’s trouble. Well integrated with lots of acidity, it smells like an Orange Crush and a strawberry michelada and tastes like strawberry ocean water

2018 March 20, Marissa A. Ross, ““Orange Wine” Needs to Go Away—Hear Me Out”, in Bon Appétit:

The first thing you should know about 79 Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge is that it’s not orange. Officially dubbed as “Atomic Tangerine” the home’s distinctive facade is one part quirky to nine parts endearing.

2019 July 10, Miriam Schwartz, “Cambridge home a tangerine dream”, in The Boston Herald:


Baker-Miller pink

Named after the directors at the prison at which the hostility-suppressing qualities were first tested.

Baker-Miller pink:

After years of (somewhat questionable) research, Schauss suggested that this very specific shade of pink could slow a test subject's heart rate and even reduce a propensity for aggressive, violent behavior. He believed the color, called Baker-Miller pink, had a calming effect akin to what you might experience during yoga or meditation.

2015 November 22, Liz Stinson, “Vollebak's Pink Hoodie Supposedly Calms You by Zipping Over Your Face”, in WIRED:

The least likely of this January’s diets came, obliquely, from Kendall Jenner’s official app and was a colour rather than a book. In a post titled “The story behind my pink wall!” she explained the thinking behind the pink living room wall of her expensive Los Angeles home: “Baker-Miller Pink is the only color [sic] scientifically proven to calm you AND suppress your appetite.

2017 January 10, Morwenna Ferrier, “This colour might change your life: Kendall Jenner and Baker-Miller Pink”, in The Guardian:

Schauss named the colour “Baker-Miller pink” after two of his co-experimenters, naval officers Gene Baker and Ron Miller. Baker and Miller were so impressed with Schauss’s findings that they went ahead and painted the holding cells at their naval base this shade of pink.

2018 October 13, Julie Irish, “Can pink really pacify, or is hype around its calming abilities based on a dangerous stereotype?”, in The Independent:

Such is the reputation of Baker-Miller Pink that it’s been painted on walls in a prison, a youth clinic and a psychiatric ward as a technique for reducing aggression. Norwich City F.C. even used it to cover the walls in the changing rooms for away teams in the hope that it’d dampen their fighting spirit.

2019 June 13, Megan Williams, “Juno Calypso explores the calming power of pink”, in The Creative Review:

Santa Clara County Jail is painted Baker-Miller Pink, so is a San Bernardino youth clinic, and it wasn't long before sports psychologists embraced the idea as a way of gaining an advantage over opposing teams.

2019 June 24, Bridget Galton, “Women's World Cup art in Archway”, in The Hampstead Highgate Express, archived from the original on 2019-07-09:

A shade of pink thought to reduce hostile, violent and aggressive behavior.


cadet grey

From the colour of military uniform; first used as a colour term around 1912.

cadet grey:

Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.

2016 April 13, Romie Stott, “The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars”, in Atlas Obscura:

The company marched ahead of the Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band. Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists. Not even the breeze could make the red tassles sway atop their black and gold hats as they marched up Fifth Avenue.

2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York:

And Lottie Moss looked every inch the party girl as she headed for a night out with her actor pal Daniel Mickelson in West Hollywood on Sunday. The 21-year-old showed off her incredible figure in a cadet grey bodycon dress as she strutted to Delilah restaurant.

2019 April 22, Connie Rusk, “Lottie Moss displays her incredible figure in a skintight grey bodycon dress as she heads on night out with pal Daniel Mickelson in LA”, in The Daily Mail:

A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue.


hot zone

A hot zone was established quickly. Unfortunately, these efforts were compromised by a few MPD officers on the scene who did not understand the serious nature of the potential chemical/biological threat and treated the incident more as a bomb scare. These officers initially crossed in and out of the hot zone, and could have contaminated themselves and other personnel had this been a real incident.

1997, U S Fire Administration, FEMA, Fire Department Response to Biological Threat at B'nai B'rith Headquarters, page 6:

Medical monitoring is an essential aspect to conducting operations in the hot zone.

2004, Stanley E. Toy, Hot Zone Log: Personal HazMat Record, page 22:

Subsequently, it became evident that Iitate was a hot zone with very high levels of radiation contamination and all of its residents and evacuees had to be evacuated.

2012, Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan, page 210:

(firefighting) An area to which access is restricted because it is contaminated with radiation or a chemical or biological biohazard.


raisin black

raisin black:

This new scooter is available in six different colors such as raisin black, silver, white dove, couture brown, rogue matt blue and moonlight silver.

2019 November 21, “Global e-scooter/moped and e-motorcycle market omprehensive Analysis 2019-2026”, in Hitz Dairies, archived from the original on 2019-12-07:

The designs showcased were two structured, sci-fi silhouettes in the Watson-generated colour palette of raisin black and Yankees blue. The third, the showstopper, modelled by actor Pooja Hegde, was a textured grey gown paired with silver pumps.

2017 June 2, Komal Sharma, “Where AI and fashion cross paths”, in liveMint:

A faintly purplish or brownish shade of black, like that of raisins.


smoky black

smoky black (countable and uncountable, plural smoky blacks)

smoky black:

During the summer months they sport smoky-black plumage, their wings speckled with white spots, but at this time of year they have mottled grey backs with paler underparts, making them difficult to distinguish from the more prolific common redshank (T totanus).

2019 December 6, Claire Stares, “Country diary: this elegant wader has become a local celebrity”, in The Guardian:

Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.

2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman:

A coat colour of horses that is either black or slightly lighter than black.


Tiffany blue

Tiffany blue:

You’ll enter through a Tiffany & Co. bridge inspired by the renowned Central Park and immersed in a world filled with oversized signature Tiffany blue boxes.

2019 November 28, Faima Bakar, “Tiffany & Co has a pretty bougie new ice rink at Covent Garden for free”, in Metro:

After months of rumors, it was confirmed today that luxury giant LVMH will acquire Tiffany and Co, the storied American jewelry company, for $16.2 billion dollars. The deal is the largest ever in the luxury sector, according to The New York Times. To celebrate the deal, LVMH turned its homepage Tiffany blue today.

2019 November 25, Elizabeth Angell, “Luxury Giant LVMH Just Bought Tiffany and Co. for $16.2 Billion”, in Town and Country:

The aptly named Blue Box Cafe is kitted out in marble Tiffany blue, and offers a Holly Golightly-inspired experience from $29 a head.

2019 November 19, Chloe Foussianes, “Tiffany & Co's Famous Blue Box Cafe Will Close for Two Years”, in Town and Country:

The new café also got attention for its striking blue decor. To be more specific, it’s Tiffany Blue, a color so synonymous with the jeweler that it’s trademarked.

2017 November 10, Elise Taylor, “A Peek Inside Tiffany & Co.’s New Café, Where You Can Yes, Eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, in Vogue:

A shade of robin egg blue used by and associated with Tiffany & Co., an American jeweller.


robin egg blue

robin egg blue:

In other festive news, Covent Garden will be opening an ice rink later this month in partnership with the luxury jewellery shop, Tiffany & Co. The installation has been themed after the robin egg blue colour that the brand is known for, with giant Tiffany boxes used as decorations

2019 November 10, Almara Abgarian, “There’s a giant gingerbread house popping up in Covent Garden tomorrow”, in Metro:

robin's-egg blue
robin's-egg blue#English


Schweinfurt green

Named after the city in which it was first made, Schweinfurt, Germany.

Paris or Schweinfurt green:

For example, Schweinfurt green, also known as emerald or Paris green, was used in wallpaper and upholstery in the 19th century and contained high levels of arsenic. Wallpaper is even said to have killed Napoleon Bonaparte.

2015 June 26, Rachel Dixon, “Why green just can’t be trusted”, in The Guardian:


Vienna green

Paris or Vienna green:

Emerald green was also called Schweinfurt green, Paris green, and Vienna green. The toxicity of dye made with emerald green was not initially recognized, until the recipe was published in 1822

2010 March 5, “Emerald Green or Paris Green, the Deadly Regency Pigment”, in Jane Austen World:


big light

Who put the big light on? It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!

(UK, informal) The main, usually central, light of a room in a house.


containment line

containment line (plural containment lines)

(firefighting) A linear area which has been cleared of inflammable material in order to prevent a fire from spreading across it.


self-ignite

en-verb

self-ignite (third-person singular simple present self-ignites, present participle self-igniting, simple past and past participle self-ignited)

self-ignites (present singular third-person)
self-igniting (participle present)
self-ignited (participle past)
self-ignited (past)

However, when the concentration of carbon is 1.4%, the mixture self-ignites at 295°.

(intransitive) To catch fire due to sufficient temperature.


door opener

(sales): Compare get one's foot in the door.

The two most common types of door openers used are the "Hale" and the "Detroit".

1947, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education., Regional Firemen Training Schools - Volume 2, page 8:

Within this one tool, you have the same basic feature of the door opener, crowbar, and hatchet.

1985, John A. Carley, Mavis V. Whigham, Fire protection specialist (AFSC 57150), page 24:

Although an old tool, the Detroit door opener still functions well when used correctly and will have devastating effects on today's standard locks and door closures.

1997, Richard A. Fritz, Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use, page 27:

Any of various devices designed to make opening a door easier.

(firefighting) A crowbar-like tool used by firefighters to quickly force locked doors to open.


whole-time

Whole-time employees with more than two years of service will be entitled to compensation, [...].

1941 November, “Notes and News: Abandoning the Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:

(especially firefighting or business) full-time


champagne pink

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From the colour of 'pink' rosé champagne.

champagne pink:

Both machines are built with slender frames, milled completely from metal and Dell has even introduced a Champagne Pink color – which tragically isn’t coming to the US – to compete with Huawei’s Pink Ultrabook.

2017 August 28, Kevin Lee, “Hands on: Dell Inspiron 13 7000 (2017) review”, in TechRadar:

Emma stunned in the champagne pink off-the-shoulder gown, which featured an elaborately embroidered bodice.

2018 July 2, Connie Rusk, “Emma Roberts looks ethereal in champagne pink gown as she attends star-studded Dior show in Paris”, in Daily Mail:

Customers wanting to get their hands on the calender^([sic]) will have to race to their local store - otherwise eager shoppers may have to wait up to two weeks for the calendar to come back in stock. This year's offering contains a collection of 24 products which come in a sleek black and champagne pink box.

2018 October 19, Lottie Gibbons, “Boots' No7 2018 advent calendar has makeup bundle worth £177 for only £42 - here is the contents”, in Liverpool Echo:

The champagne-pink youngster, believed to be about two or three weeks old in this footage and the smallest in the herd, was being carefully guarded by protective adults. It's unclear from the clip if the calf is a true albino or if its unusual colouring is caused by a genetic condition called leucism.

2019 March 14, Earth Touch News, “Baby 'pink' elephant filmed frolicking on South African game reserve”, in Earth Touch News Network:

This champagne-pink nail polish lives up to its name (I mean, have you ever seen a nail polish that felt more Gatsby than this?), but you definitely don’t need a fancy-schmancy party to wear it to.

2019 July 30, Ruby Buddemeyer, “12 Pink Nail Polishes and Colors You’ll Want to Wear All Summer Long”, in Cosmopolitan:

The article in question was colored a champagne pink and adorned with so many thousands of sequins, beads and jewels, it seemed as though if Larson stood in strong sunlight the beams would refract into a thousand rainbows.

2020 February 10, Andrew Marshall, “The Internet’s Losing It Over Brie Larson’s Oscar Dress”, in We Got This Covered:

Curl up in this curvaceous, champagne pink velvet armchair with a brass-clad base for an added pop of glitz. An instant room updater.

2020 February 10, Lara Sargent, “The roaring 2020s: What’s not to love about this glamorous take on the new decade?”, in Metro:


Mexican pink

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Mexican pink:

Casillas's design, which was implemented in Australia by Evolva Architects, also contrasts the exposed concrete interior walls with inbuilt wooden furniture, white plasterboard and soaped douglas fir solid-wood floors that add warmth to the space. Colourful paintings by Chucho Reyes offset the fields of grey concrete and white walls, as does Casillas' signature yet judicious use of Mexican pink in surprising places.

2015 May 22, Ray Edgar, “Victorian Architecture Awards 2015: Camberwell's concrete monolith in the mix”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

"In Mexico," Mr Kalanick writes, "we were inspired by Mexican pink and the patterns in the local tiles; in Ireland, from the Georgian architecture and the lush greens; and in Nigeria, from the ankara, which came up again and again because of its bright colours and beautiful geometric patterns."

2016 February 2, Dave Lee, “Uber drops its U. Why?”, in BBC News:

She wears a very full, ruffled poplin skirt in a bright color, such as red, Mexican pink, yellow or blue, striped with colorful ribbons. The top has elbow-length sleeves and a bibbed front. Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.

2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles:

Derived from insects found on the prickly pear cactus, cochineal became one of the principal exports of colonial Mexico. Following the country's revolution (1910–20), cochineal's associations with indigenous cultures led to a widespread embrace of the intense Mexican pink derived from it.

2018 September 5, Hettie Judah, “A New Exhibition Examines The Power Of Pink”, in Vogue:

Speaking of cultural identity, Mexican pink is now the color used to identify Mexico City. We have assimilated this in such a natural way that we didn’t realize it was completely planned.

2019 December 2, Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, “Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past”, in Document Journal:

A shade of pink, similar to fuchsia or magenta, and common in Mexican culture.


brink pink

brink pink:

Her blonde locks were styled down, as her face was touched up with some smokey eye shadow and brink pink lipstick.

2013 April 16, Rachel Levy, “Baby's almost here! Pregnant Jessica Simpson busts out of clinging black gown to attend a friend's wedding”, in Daily Mail:

Varieties like “Shindeshojo,” “Orange Dream,” “Akane” and “Coral Magic,” have stunning brink pink, orange or coral foliage in spring. Some like “Tsuma Gaki” or “Murasaki Kiyohime” come out lime green with red edging.

2017 April 27, Steve Smith, “Notes from a gardener with a Japanese maple addiction”, in Washington Herald:

If red is too bright for you, opt for this brink pink tone. Lots of gorgeous details embellish this cotton kurta from frayed layered collar, fabric loops and buttons to a pleated hemline with laces.

2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute:

Rafael Nadal will be wearing a brink pink colour jacket and the same colour shoes at the tournament. His shorts will be white in colour. The tee will be sleeveless like the previous two seasons.

2020 January 14, Aryan Sharma, “Outfit Revealed For Rafael Nadal For Australian Open 2020”, in Essentially Sports:


Princeton orange

From Princeton University, which uses the colour.

Princeton orange:

He even looks exactly the way a Princeton coach should look: perfectly tailored suit, white shirt, Princeton orange-and-black tie.

2017 March 12, John Feinstein, “Ivy League plays a basketball tournament, and it's almost worth the 60-year wait”, in The Washington Post:

Having gone from 170 pounds back then up to 235 pounds less than a month after graduating, Bobo will be suiting up in Princeton orange and black as a tight end for the Tigers during the 2018 football season.

2018 July 12, Alec Etheredge, “Sports mind: Carson Bobo combines brains and sports”, in The Shelby County Reporter:

The standard Princeton Orange, Pantone 158, was created in 1959. The original cloth inspiring the shade is kept in archives for historical reference.

2019 June 7, Maha Al Fahim, “The power of orange”, in The Daily Princetonian:

I’m very proud to be a Quaker, but I’d be even more proud if I could sport that classic Princeton orange. Red and blue really don’t do me any favors.

2019 November 22, James Morrison, “Penn-Princeton Game to See Massive Turnout, Might Fill One Row of Student Section”, in Under The Button:

With a future in Princeton orange and black soon to come to fruition, Burns still has one more season in DHS Demons’ red. She is training hard for her final season of track and field, and will compete in indoor events before she prepares to defend her 3,200 crown in the spring.

2019 December 26, Brenden Ploen, “Durango High’s Madeleine Burns to run at Princeton”, in The Durango Herald, archived from the original on 2019-12-27:


Yale blue

From Yale University, which uses the colour.

Yale blue:

You could call the shade Yale blue, presidential blue, or even a dark steel blue. Regardless, it conveyed the right amount of cheeriness for the occasion and reverence for a historic moment in the British royal family's history.

2017 November 27, Megan Gustashaw, “Prince Harry’s Engagement Suit Is Just What You Should Wear on Your Big Day”, in GQ:

Neither Harvard crimson nor Yale blue courses through my veins — I am an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — but I was at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69 on a Nieman Fellowship, awarded each year to a dozen American journalists in the hope that using the university’s vast resources might help them improve their professional skills.

2018 November 21, “A spectacular Harvard-Yale football game that lifted spirits in the tragic year of 1968”, in The Washington Post:

For a talented senior class, the weekend marks the final hurrah in Yale blue. Trumbull’s Simon Whiteman, first baseman Griffin Dey and pitcher Scott Politz should all be selected in next month’s Major League Baseball draft.

2019 May 8, Chip Malafronte, “Yale enters weekend playing for pride”, in New Haven Register:

The 49-year-old put on an elegant display in a two-toned blue, one-shoulder gown. With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.

2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film The Rest of Us”, in Daily Mail:

But Yale had certain advantages. Its nonprofit status sheltered it from taxes on income. It could access top outside fund managers. It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue.

2019 September 11, Drake Bennett, Janet Lorin, Michael McDonald, “How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich”, in Bloomberg News:

While today the courts on the fifth floor sport a fresh Yale Blue coat of paint and glass backboards, in the 1970s they were drafty, completely wooden and nearly uninhabitable in the hotter months.

2020 March 4, Eamonn Smith, “Yale faculty keep fit, form bonds on the hardwood”, in The Yale News:


Pullman brown

Named after Pullman, a rail company which used the colour on many of its cars.

Pullman brown:

UPS has used the color for its trucks since 1916, when it was called Pullman brown. The reason the company chose brown is "that it was the epitome of luxury at the time," a former UPS executive told The New York Times in 1998.

2012 September 29, Aleksi Tzatzev, “10 Colors That Might Get You Sued”, in Business Insider:

Home insulation company Owens Corning launched the "Think Pink" campaign to protect its unique pink hue, setting a precedent for Cadbury's deep purple chocolate wrappers, UPS's Pullman brown logos, Tiffany & Co.'s robin egg blue jewelry packaging and Christian Louboutin's red shoe soles.

2017 November 6, Marissa Miller, “How colors change the way we think, feel and consume”, in CNN:

A shade of brown originally used on Pullman cars and later by UPS.


rush candle

A candle of tallow or wax that uses a piece of rush as a wick.


China white

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure white lead paint”)


silver white

white lead

Synonym of white lead, particularly (historical) in the form used in 19th-century Parisian paints.


golden-yellow

golden-yellows (plural)
apple green (alternative)

golden-yellow:


moon-man

(science fiction) A native alien of the Moon.


moonlight tower

en-noun

moonlight tower (plural moonlight towers)

From moonlight + tower. From being a tower providing illumination akin to moonlight.

(historical) A high tower fitted with arclights, formerly common in 19th-century cities with electricity, as a means of illuminating public spaces.


Lunan

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

2012, A. Lee Martinez, Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain:

Despite the war games, the Jovans considered themselves invincible, and the Lunans were their only worthy opponent in the solar system. Having their own ships blown up in orbit by unknown forces, the Lunans were no longer transgressors.

2014, William Tedford, Battlefields of Silence:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


VLAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of very large airtanker. (a class of waterbomber)


M/L ratio

M/L ratio (countable and uncountable, plural M/L ratios)

mass-to-light ratio
mass-to-light ratio#English

(astrophysics) Short for mass-to-light ratio.

media-to-lumen ratio
media-to-lumen ratio#English

(medicine) Short for media-to-lumen ratio.


unicorn vomit

I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.

2011, Haley Massara, "The etiquette of cake", Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), 8 April 2011, page A10

"Well, it's awesome," I say, thinking "awesome" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.

2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty and the Broken, unnumbered page:

"Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms."

2015, Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, page 69:

(slang, idiomatic, humorous) Something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying.


hoseline

A hose used to convey a substance, especially water for firefighting.


Stone Mountain

Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
en:Stone Mountain (disambiguation)

Descartes Highlands
Descartes Highlands#English


fork lightning

fork lightning (usually uncountable, plural fork lightnings)

It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.

1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131:

Lightning that contains bolts that branch.


forked lightning

forked lightning (usually uncountable, plural forked lightnings)


Shango

An orisha in Yoruba religion, the god of thunder, fire, justice, dance and virility.


pocket light

pocket lights (plural)
pocketlight (alternative)

A flashlight small enough to fit in someone's pocket.


wildfire-fighter

A firefighter trained in fighting wildfires.


brilliant green

(organic chemistry) A triarylmethane dye, closely related to malachite green, also used in solution for its antiseptic properties.


heliochemistry

(chemistry) The study of the chemical elements present in the Sun.


rosso corsa

From Italian rosso corsa (“racing red”), from rosso (“red”), corsa (“racing”).

rosso corsa:

A bright red colour commonly used on sports cars.


shit-brown

shit-brown (countable and uncountable, plural shit-browns)

But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.

1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 60:

shit-brown:

(vulgar, informal) A dark brown colour, as of excrement.


photoneutral

(biology, physics) Unaffected by the action of light