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beetroot-red en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of beetroot red.
   alt of beetroot red
   • Gardeners have selected a sport of this native, E amygdaloides 'Purpurea', and this is even more delectable with beetroot-red stems and dark purple foliage, but I have yet to grow it successfully without mildew getting to it first. 2008 March 8, Dan Pearson, “Lost in the mists of lime”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2014:
   • I have missed the daily ferry, so check into a hotel full of beetroot-red Brits. 2006 October 24, Stephen Moss, “'As soon as I get to Limassol, I know I have made a terrible mistake'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2014:
   • When McLennan and I climb out – our chests beetroot-red – we chat with another swimmer, 52-year-old Oliver Perritt. Perritt has been coming to the Highgate Men’s Pond pretty much every day for a decade. 2018 December 23, Tim Lewis, “The big chill: the health benefits of swimming in ice water”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2018:
   • Swollen beetroot-red bulbs half-heaved from the soil, tempting greedy fingers to cup and pluck them out of the earth. 2019 November 11, Derek Niemann, “Country diary: a delayed harvest after the frost”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2019:
   • Sykes filled his New York life with like-minded people, who found it as funny and natural as he did that birthdays meant doing things like sitting on a rooftop 50 floors up, doing cocaine and drinking gin and then passing out at dawn, only to wake up later beetroot-red with sunburn. 2006 December 16, Rebecca Seal, “Show him the way to the next whisky bar”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2014:
   • If you don't jog, jogging is also, quite simply, impossible. When you do run for a couple of minutes - when needs really must - you find yourself beetroot-red in the face, slick with sweat and barely able to breathe. 2000 September 12, Emily Wilson, “The joys of jogging”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 May 2014:

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