winedark

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A form of wine-dark — Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of red wine.

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Meanings

adjectivewinedark (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of wine-dark.

    Sailing on a winedark open sea.

    1993, Paul McCartney, Winedark Open Sea, on the album Off The Ground
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    And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway.

    , Episode 12, The Cyclops

    Mr. Fitts, who took his A.B. at Harvard in 1925, is Instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover. Palamedes: A Mystical Colloquy Peacock-shooting once on the Essex marshes with David McCord, hunched in that cold blind, at first my literal mind could only gape at what treasure the winedark sea, or its winedark inscrutable backwash, had cast up at our frozen feet — an inscription, a kind of kenning, blazed on an oar-blade: haddock hateth hake. 'An inscrutable, winedark message ...'

    1961, Harvard Alumni Bulletin: volume 64, page 20
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