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ruddy

/ˈɹʌdi/ adjectif C1

En français : rougeâtre

  1. Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
  2. Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one). · in ruddy health

Comparatif ruddier · Superlatif ruddiest

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Dans la bibliothèque

White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
The Valley of Fear, p. 33 · C1
It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 83 · B2
Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 63 · C1
When young Rockwall entered the library the old man laid aside his newspaper, looked at him with a kindly grimness on his big, smooth, ruddy countenance, rumpled his mop of white hair with one hand and rattled the keys in his pocket with the other.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1

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