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Meanings of blood-red in English

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

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      Having the deep-red color of blood.

            Usage of blood-red in English
            1
            In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
            The Illustrated Man
            2
            A purple line colors blood-red the farthest horizon, announcing the new light.
            The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
            3
            The beams seemed to threaten fire and war, so blood-red were they.
            Northland Heroes
            4
            Thoth gazed at the western horizon, where the sunset was turning blood-red.
            The red pyramid
            5
            His military uniform was skin-tight: a black tunic belted over blood-red breeches.
            The Universe — or Nothing
            6
            I knew Adem mercenaries wore blood-red clothing as a sort of badge.
            The Wise Man’s Fear
            7
            The canopy bed had a feather mattress and drapes of blood-red velvet.
            A Dance with Dragons
            8
            Now the gate's blood-red walls were covered in scaffolding and green gauze.
            The Guardian
            9
            A cloud of rust was released, a blood-red shower of oxidized iron.
            The coldest blood
            10
            The gilded onion domes of the church seemed to have turned blood-red.
            The Guardian
            11
            Eve spun about in a flurry of ebony hair and blood-red silk.
            Eve of darkness
            12
            Upon the outer covering of a dispatch was a singular blood-red streak!
            Clarence
            13
            Her blood-red lips broke into a smile, exposing her even white teeth.
            House of Bathory
            14
            Her crepe gown was almost the colour of the ruby; warm and blood-red.
            Old Rose and Silver
            15
            The blood-red flag of the Turkish state hung limp under the noontime sun.
            The genesis secret
            16
            Her skin was red; not American flag-stripe red like Atomahawk's armor, but blood-red.
            Masked
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