Dictionary

luteous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈludiəs/ (General-American)
• /ˈluːtiəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūteus.

Meanings

1. (literary) Yellowish.
   • Tepshen Lahl nodded, his luteous features grave. 1990 December, Angus Wells, chapter 6, in The Way Beneath (Kingdoms; 3), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 122:
   • He put his hand on the door handle, but made no other move to leave. He turned his luteous smile on her. “I’m afraid you'll have to loan me some scratch.” 2000, Theresa Donovan Brown, “Sentinel”, in Summitville, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 129:
   • The driver’s smile widened, showing his luteous tombstone teeth. 1990, Ronald Frame, “Un Homme et une Femme”, in Bluette, Sevenoaks, Kent: Sceptre, published 1991, →ISBN, part I (Aquae-Regis), page 76:
   • And men wept sorely,—for his voice had smoothed / Life’s whirlpool, with its softly-echoing tones, / Filling their hearts with peace—but his glad soul / Flung off her luteous chains, and winged her way / Far, far above the pigmy lamentations / Or frivolous praise of men. 1856, [Thomas Brinsley Norton Grantley], “The Dead Priest”, in Pinocchi, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 92:
   • The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia. 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
   • His lips still curled back from his luteous teeth like old cabbage leaves, his pointed snout tested the air like a trunk. 1990 October, Ned Wynn, chapter 1, in We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 20:
   • […] the hind tibiæ more luteous than in T. cordiger, but with the apical sixth more contrastedly black; […] 1909, G[eorge] H[enry] Verrall, Stratiomyidæ and Succeeding Families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain, London: […] Gurney & Jackson, […], page 411:
2. Of or pertaining to mud.

Forms

Deriveds

luteously