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rubescent

[roo-bes-uhnt] / ruˈbɛs ənt /




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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

The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

Amid a theatre of opalescent clouds reefed in the east, the sun diffused its glory, and shaped rubescent coral columns, edging its facade with azure and gold.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

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

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


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