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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | English term or phrase: flushed | Could you please provide a synonym, rephrase or explain what "flushed" means in this context.
"The victorious beauty of the rose as compared with other flowers, depends wholly on the delicacy and quantity of its colour gradations, all other flowers being either less rich in gradation, not having so many folds of leaf; or less tender, being patched and veined instead of ***flushed***." |
| | | gradation of color due to being abruptly spilled from a bucket to a surface. | Explanation:
fits the meaning of the essay in my opinion
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-07-17 19:18:03 GMT)
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sorry colour :-)
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-07-17 20:05:09 GMT)
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or less tender, being patched and veined instead of ***gradually gradated as if flushed from a color container***." |
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 HassanLotfy
Egypt
Local time: 04:09
| Grading comment Thank you for your lateral thinking. It's the image "spilled from a bucket onto a surface" that actually helped me translate it.
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