adj
Meaning 1
Of or similar to the deep reddish colour of madder (dye).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64, A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;
Meaning relationships
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