[f. the place-name Solferino in Italy, because discovered shortly after the battle fought there in 1859.] The bright crimson dye-color rosaniline. Also attrib.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, Circ. Sci., I. 420. Aniline … is … used in … dyeing establishments, for affording the colours … Magenta, Solferino.
1883. Chamb. Jrnl., 15 Dec., 797/2. The number of new names given to various varieties of colour, as mauve, magenta, solferino, &c., has greatly increased of late years.
1889. A. C. Gunter, That Frenchman! v. 53. Most of these [dresses] are of … Solferino reds, or Pompadour greens.
