fulvid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fulvidus, from fulvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌlvɪd/, /ˈfʊlvɪd/

Adjective

fulvid (comparative more fulvid, superlative most fulvid)

1. Fulvous; tawny-coloured.
   • 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] 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 […]

References

• “fulvid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.