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rutilance en · NOUN

Etymology

French?

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable, usually) redness; a red glow; the quality of being rutilant
    • He used vegetal colorings for his works, thus, obtaining the rutilances of Van Dyck and that of Van Der Goss. 1945, Melitón Salazar Monroy, Santa Monica, museum of religious art in Puebla:
    • 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 […]

Forms

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Relateds

rutilant · rutilation