isabelline
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The isabelline shrike
See also: Isabelline
English
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- IPA(key): /ɪzəˈbɛlɪn/
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Adjective
isabelline (comparative more isabelline, superlative most isabelline)
- (chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow.
- The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.
- 1871, Charles Darwin, “Birds—concluded”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. , volume II, London: John Murray, , →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 224:
- As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
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- Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].]
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Further reading
Isabelline (colour) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Isabel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Michael Quinion (1996–2024) “Isabelline”, in World Wide Words.
