sulphureous

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Etymology

From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.

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Adjective

sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)

  1. (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
    • 1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue, page 46:
      Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast.
    • 1807, de Staël Holstein, translated by D Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. , volume III, London: Corri, ; and sold by Colburn, , and Mackenzie, , →OCLC, page 236:
      The plain of Naples is the image of human passions; sulphureous and fertile; its dangers and its pleasures seem born of these fiery volcanoes, which give the air so many charms, and cause the thunderbolt to growl beneath our feet.
    • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
      An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.

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