LURID

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

2.
a.

Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3.
a.

Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.


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