a. Of the color of flame.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. ii. 11. The blessed Sunne himselfe a faire hot Wench in Flame-coloured Taffata.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 22.

        He who the sacred shields th’ Ancilia bore
By unseen thongs, toyling and sweating sore,
Wears a fring’d petticote and flame-colour’d veil.

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1704.  Swift, T. Tub, ii. A while after, there came up all in Fashion a pretty Sort of Flame-coloured Sattin for Linings.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. liii. 96. She raised her arms till they were bare to the elbow, her brow was contracted in one deep fold, her eyes were closed, her voice was smothered: in her dusky flame-colored garment, she looked like a dreamed visitant from some region of departed mortals.

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  fig.  1784.  R. Bage, Barham Downs, I. 113. Damnation! swore my Lord, and a few other flame-coloured ejaculations; and if he did but know the man that had thus abused my ear, he would—cut out his tongue at least.

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