rutilance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rutilance (usually uncountable, plural rutilances)
- (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.
- 1918-22, James Joyce, Ulysses
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[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]rutilance f (plural rutilances)
Further reading
[edit]- “rutilance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.