What is "oxblood"

Usage examples of "oxblood".

The rider was an old woman dressed in a velvet housecoat the color of oxblood, a woolen throw draped across her lap for extra warmth.

I gazed up through this maroon or oxblood space and saw what I could of her, the dark band of her swimsuit top, her clavicles set forward.

Tim was wearing a dark navy suit with a dress shirt that was oxblood red.

Bee stretched onto her tiptoes and kissed Bill, leaving a streak of oxblood lipstick on his cheek.

All arranged in a color spectrum from black, through ink blue, purple, and oxblood red to palest pink, faded lime, and snowy white, all glittering and gleaming.

There were wide diamond cuffs around her narrow wrists, and her nails were oxblood red.

Royal-blue carpeting, blue-and-gold draperies, brass fixtures, and oxblood leather chairs all screamed English Club - no I doubt exactly what Eliot had told Chardt he wanted.

He used a shiny felt-tip pen to indicate a bank of oxblood telephones, which I moved on to.

A tall thin woman in tan slacks and an oxblood leather halter that was probably as uncomfortable as a hair shirt stood up.

Sometimes, at our picnics, he would take out his strongsmelling shoe polishes, his oxblood cream paste, the thick black polish half gone from the can, the deep browns, the oozing orange viscous liquid, the neutral creams, the shiny rags, the brushes and lay them on the grass.

His oxblood leather tunic creaked as he leaned forward to absorb the blow.

Even little Clan Brod-dic had sent sixty men, who sat high upon their snowy horses, resplendent in oxblood leathers and hound-skull helms.

The red room contains a bed, upon which are white satin-style sheets and an oxblood bedspread.

We met for a drink in one of those oxblood pubs on the East Side where the laughter and tinkling chatter seemed canned, subject to volume control.

Vaylo touched the oxblood leather pouch containing his measure of powdered guidestone.