Word Meanings - PEACH-COLORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the color of a peach blossom. "Peach-colored satin." Shak.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• PEACHY
  Resembling a peach or peaches.
• SATINETTE
  One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• PEACHER
  One who peaches. Foxe.
• BLOSSOMY
  Full of blossoms; flowery.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• SATINY
  Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.
• BLOSSOM
  D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to 1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a
• SATIN
  A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface. Cloths of gold and satins rich of hue. Chaucer. Denmark satin, a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. --
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• COLOR
  An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
• SATINET
  1. A thin kind of satin. 2. A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.
• COLORIFIC
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• PEACHBLOW
  Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.
• COLORIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• BLOSSOMLESS
  Without blossoms.
• COLOR SERGEANT
  See SERGEANT
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• APPEACHMENT
  Accusation.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• DEPEACH
  To discharge. As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• EMBLOSSOM
  To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.
• CAMPEACHY WOOD
  Logwood.
• ISATIN
  An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo.