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solferino
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun solferino has 2 senses
- solferino(n = noun.attribute) purplish pink - a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino; Array is a kind of pink
- solferino(n = noun.act) battle of solferino - an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I; Array is a kind of pitched battle
CIDE DICTIONARY
solferino, n.
A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery. [1913 Webster]
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