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saffronlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From saffron + -like.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of or resembling saffron.
   • From the saffron-like hue of such of the corpses as were not entirely decayed, we concluded that the whole of her company had perished by the yellow fever, or some other virulent disease of the same fearful kind. 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter X, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:

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