a. Obs. [f. as prec. + RED a. Cf. MHG. viurrot.] Red like fire.

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1382.  Wyclif, Lev. xiv. 49. In the purifiynge of it he shal take two sparows, and the cedre tree, and fier reed silk, and ysop.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Prol., 623.

        A Sompnour was ther with us in that place,
That hadde a fire-red cherubinnes face.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 154. People borne with eies like owles, whereof the sight is fire red.

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1626.  Sandys, trans. Ovid’s Met., XIV. 777.

        But she more cruell then the seas, imbroyld
With rising stormes; more hard then iron, boyld
In fire-red furnaces.

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