red-figure
红图,红字,红字头,红人
Definitions
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- : pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
Examples
Former Red Sox star Curt Schilling says his politics are keeping him out of Cooperstown.
Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.
Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.