[每日] rubicund (a) 紅潤的
Word of the Day (Sunday October 5, 2008)
rubicund \ROO-bih-kund\, adjective:
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Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
The men are second cousins, around forty, resembling each other
not very much, one taller and leaner, less rubicund than the
other, who has just returned from California.
-- John Lukacs, A Thread of Years
Rubicund from his cocktail, big, broad, lustrous with power, he
exuded what Walter Pater called the "charm of an exquisite
character, felt in some way to be inseparable from his person."
-- Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Rubicund comes from Latin rubicundus, "red, ruddy," from rubere,
"to be red."
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