rubescent
Example Sentences
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The words “He Was Special 2 Me” are emblazoned across the shirt in rubescent detail.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess—vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
It is blood-red fact; it is warm-hearted invitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
And I once a rubescent socialist … best parlor type … Lord!
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
His face looked so fierce and rubescent under his vast hat, that he put me in mind of a large coal, the lower half of which was in a state of combustion.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
