rutilance

English

Etymology

French?

Noun

rutilance (usually uncountable, plural rutilances)

  1. (rare) redness; a red glow; the quality of being rutilant
    • 1918-22, James Joyce, Ulysses
      [] rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance []
    • 1945, Melitón Salazar Monroy, Santa Monica, museum of religious art in Puebla:
      He used vegetal colorings for his works, thus, obtaining the rutilances of Van Dyck and that of Van Der Goss.

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French

Noun

rutilance f (plural rutilances)

  1. rutilance

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