Tuscan red

noun

A dark shade of red, once popularly used for railcars.

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Meanings

nounTuscan red (countable and uncountable, plural Tuscan reds)

plural Tuscan reds

  1. countableuncountableA dark shade of red, once popularly used for railcars.

    The C.P.R. favours that old favourite of American railways, Tuscan red.

    1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552
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