rubescent
English
editEtymology
editAttested since at least 1730, from Latin rubescens, present participle of rubescere.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɹuːˈbɛsənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
editrubescent (comparative more rubescent, superlative most rubescent)
- turning red; reddening
- 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop[1], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:
- Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
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editFrench
editAdjective
editrubescent (feminine rubescente, masculine plural rubescents, feminine plural rubescentes)
Further reading
edit- “rubescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editrubēscent
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