pillar-box red
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pillar-box red (plural pillar-box reds)
- A bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
Adjective
[edit]pillar-box red (not comparable)
- Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
- 2000, Zadie Smith, “The Root Canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal” (chapter 5), in White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 88:
- ‘All right. And if there were no “ladies” in the vicinity?’ ¶ ‘Well, you can always,’ and here Archie went a pillar-box red, this being his own version of cementing a friendship, ‘slap the salami, as the GIs say!’
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- blood red
- brick red
- burgundy
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- cerise
- cherry
- cherry red
- Chinese red
- cinnabar
- claret
- crimson
- damask
- fire brick
- fire engine red
- flame
- flamingo
- fuchsia
- garnet
- geranium
- gules
- hot pink
- incarnadine
- Indian red
- magenta
- maroon
- misty rose
- nacarat
- oxblood
- pillar-box red
- pink
- Pompeian red
- poppy
- raspberry
- red violet
- rose
- rouge
- ruby
- ruddy
- salmon
- sanguine
- scarlet
- shocking pink
- stammel
- strawberry
- Turkey red
- Venetian red
- vermilion
- vinaceous
- vinous
- violet red
- wine