fulvous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin fulvus (“reddish-brown”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʊlvəs/, /ˈfʌlvəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]fulvous (not comparable)
- Tawny-coloured.
- 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 176, column 1:
- It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 21:
- The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue.