isabelline

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1. Coloured a greyish yellow.First known use 19th c.

   The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.

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   As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”

   1871, Charles Darwin, “Birds—concluded”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 224

   Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].

   [1906, John Bernhard Smith, Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

1. not comparablehistoryOf or related to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504).
2. not comparablearchitectureOf a style of Spanish Gothic architecture that flourished under Isabella I of Castile.

   A little later the focus shifted to Valladolid and became increasingly florid—the Isabelline style—reaching its most extreme in the facades of San Pablo and the Colegio San Gregorio.

   2004, Simon Baskett, The Rough Guide to Spain, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 1051

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   The salient characteristics of Isabelline architecture include the use of extravagant formal elements such as helicoidal columns and mixtilinear arches with complete disregard of their tectonic or constructive function in the building, and profuse display of high-relief ornamentation in stone, especially heraldic symbols.

   2005, Alejandro Lapunzina, Architecture of Spain, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page xlviii