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saffron

/saf-ruhn/US // ˈsæf rən //UK // (ˈsæfrən) //

红花,番红花,藏红花,红花的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called vegetable gold . a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
    • : an orange-colored condiment consisting of its dried stigmas, used to color and flavor foods.
    • : Also saffron yellow . a yellowish-orange color.

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Examples

  • Sweet bites of butter-poached lobster mingle with elegant potato rounds and celery leaves in another seafood draw, set on sauce Americaine, which gets a lift from crushed tomatoes, saffron, onions and wine.

  • No matter how busy I am, I make a point when visiting Iran to take time for saffron shopping.

  • Just a pinch of saffron turns this pasta with cod into pure goldHe’d host parties late into the night with his friends and lay out a table full of saffron-spiked stews and rice dishes.

  • The whole room would practically glow golden, filled with the lightly floral, grassy perfume of saffron.

  • Cumming was once married to actress Hilary Lyon, and he also had a relationship with actress Saffron Burrows.

  • Later, around 400 BC, they invented faloodeh: rice water, vermicelli, and ice mixed with saffron and/or fruit.

  • The souped-up scarf comes in a Moroccan black and saffron tile print.

  • And yet there was Saraswati, ordered to trade in the saffron robes for an orange jumpsuit.

  • Cheese biscuits, asparagus spears with garlic and saffron mayonnaise, and mixed salted, roasted nuts.

  • Fagin nodded in the affirmative, and pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.

  • The view is indescribable; from lemon-yellow to orange and saffron are the hills, with blue-grey shadows in their folds.

  • His yellow tail and wings and his saffron red belly complete this marvellous masculine splendour.

  • Let us recognize it as an exquisite creation of art, not of nature, as wonderful as the pouter pigeon or the saffron rose.

  • On the threshold he paused, looking toward the west, blazing with the red and saffron of the departed sun.