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adjective • Turning red; reddening | ||||
| 57% | 4 | Word derived from the French word 'puce' referring to a color of flea | ||
noun • a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | ||||
| 36% | 9 | Pigment responsible for the red coloration of beetroot | ||
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From Red A Bookish Or Poetic Word For Blushing Crimsoning Glowing Like A Beetroot Or Growing Puce
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RUBESCENT which was last seen in the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword.
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Term, from the French for “countryside”, for landscape-painters or plein-airists who often depict rural/pastoral sceneryAn act of raking, rasping or rubbing; a graze; a stroke of a pen or a violin bow; a fiddler; a shave; a barber; a grating sound; a mass razed up by a rabbit; a scuffle; or, a thin spread of butter
An ichthyic or reptilian squama; or, from “ladder”, a series of step-like graduated sounds/measurements
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