Weolcen-reád

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weolcen-reád

According to the Old English Dictionary:

weolcen-reád
adj. Scarlet, purple :-- Se wolcnreáda wǽfels the scarlet robe, Homl. Th. ii. 254, 4. Hí scrýddon hyne mid weolcenreádum scyccelse, Mt. Kmbl. 27, 28. Wolcnreádum, Homl. Th. ii. 252, 25. Gif eówere synna wǽron wolcnreáde si fuerint peccata vestra ut coccinum, 322, 10. Wolcnereádum deáhum conchiliis, Hpt. Gl. 524, 57. Ðeós wyrt hæfð wolcenreáde blóstman. Lchdm. i. 244, 5.

Related words: weoloc-reád. weolcen-read

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