luteous

English

Etymology

From Latin lūteus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

luteous (comparative more luteous, superlative most luteous)

  1. (biology or literary) Yellowish.
    • 1856, [Thomas Brinsley Norton Grantley], “The Dead Priest”, in Pinocchi, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 92:
      And men wept sorely,—for his voice had smoothed / Life’s whirlpool, with its softly-echoing tones, / Filling their hearts with peace—but his glad soul / Flung off her luteous chains, and winged her way / Far, far above the pigmy lamentations / Or frivolous praise of men.
    • 1909, G[eorge] H[enry] Verrall, Stratiomyidæ and Succeeding Families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain, London: […] Gurney & Jackson, […], page 411:
      […] the hind tibiæ more luteous than in T. cordiger, but with the apical sixth more contrastedly black; […]
    • 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
      The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.
    • 1990, Ronald Frame, “Un Homme et une Femme”, in Bluette, Sevenoaks, Kent: Sceptre, published 1991, →ISBN, part I (Aquae-Regis), page 76:
      The driver’s smile widened, showing his luteous tombstone teeth.
    • 1990 October, Ned Wynn, chapter 1, in We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 20:
      His lips still curled back from his luteous teeth like old cabbage leaves, his pointed snout tested the air like a trunk.
    • 1990 December, Angus Wells, chapter 6, in The Way Beneath (Kingdoms; 3), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 122:
      Tepshen Lahl nodded, his luteous features grave.
    • 2000, Theresa Donovan Brown, “Sentinel”, in Summitville, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 129:
      He put his hand on the door handle, but made no other move to leave. He turned his luteous smile on her. “I’m afraid you'll have to loan me some scratch.”
  2. Of or pertaining to mud.

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