fire-red, a. and n.
[f. as prec. + red a. Cf. MHG. viurrot.]
A. adj. Red like fire. Also, reddened by fire.
| 1382 Wyclif Lev. xiv. 49 He shal take..fier reed silk. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 624 A Sompnour..That hadde a fire⁓red cherubinnes face. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 154 People borne with eies like owles, whereof the sight is fire red. 1626 Sandys tr. Ovid's Met. xiv. 779 Iron, boyld In fire-red furnaces. 1896 ‘Mark Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 356 Cotton⁓velvet westcot, fire-red and yaller squares. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 98 The fire-red windows. |
B. n. A commercial name for a brilliant red monoazo pigment characterized by strong resistance to oil and light.
| 1955 H. A. Lubs Chem. Synthetic Dyes & Pigments xi. 633 Aktien Gesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation (AGFA) disclosed that replacement of p-nitroaniline by 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline..gave the product (12), Fire Red. 1967 Karch & Buber Offset Processes vii. 269 Para reds, and Fire reds are quite ‘dirty’ in color, are semi-transparent and used mostly in poster and label inks. |