Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)The colour orange.

Origin

From Middle English ȝelu-red, ȝolowhered, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, ora

From Middle English ȝelu-red, ȝolowhered, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), equivalent to yellow + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), Dutch geelrood (“orange”), German Low German geelroot (“orange”), German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”).

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Forms

plural: yellow-reds

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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