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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin fulvidus, from fulvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʌlvɪd/, /ˈfʊlvɪd/
Adjective
fulvid (comparative more fulvid, superlative most fulvid)
- Fulvous; tawny-coloured.
1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ , or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, ”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 3, page 1:When skilful limmer 'ſuing his intent / Shall fairly well pourtray and wiſely hit / The true proportion of each lineament, / And in right colours to the life depaint / The fulvid Eagle with her ſun-bright eye
1976, Tanith Lee, The Storm Lord:Lomandra dressed the girl in rare fabrics that hung like sacks on her body, and combed out her lifeless, fulvid hair […]
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