reddishness

REDDISHNESS

by circumlocution with COLOR and the adjectives in REDDISH.

reddishness: expr. by an adj. (v. preced. art.) with color: as, subrutilus color, Plin. 10, 3, 3 subrufus c., id. 37, 10, 61: or perh. simply by rubor, Cels. 5, 28, 1.