† ˈgingerline
Also 7 gingel(l)ine, gingioline.
[app. a perversion (after ginger) of It. giuggiolino of similar meaning; a transferred use of giuggiolino gingili.]
The name of a colour; ginger colour. Also attrib.
| 1611 Florio, Zalolino, a kind of colour, which some take to be the gingerline colour. 1626 Middleton Anything for Quiet Life ii. ii, Your Nutmeg hue, or Gingerline. 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 83 Sky colour, and Orange tawny, Gridaline, and Gingeline, white and Philyamort. 1666 Davies Caribby Isl. 255 Other colours, as Black, White, Chestnut, Gingioline, Blew. |