Sekirov Dictionary

saffron

/ˈsæfɹən/

verb 5
noun 3
adjective 2
forms 3

verb5

•
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
- saffroned water, saffroned rice
•
To give a saffron colour to (something).
- My dreadful thoughts been drawen vpon my face, In blotted lines with ages iron pen, The lothlie morpheu saffroned the place, Where beuties damaske daz’d the eies of men. — 1593
•
To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
- Thee next day foloing lustring Aurora lay shymring, Her saffrond mattresse leauing to her bedfelo Tithon. — 1582
•
To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
- Or warts, or wheales, it hangs upon her skinne.
•
(figurative) To embellish.
- He saffrons his speech with Latin which he knows all by rote. — 1992

noun3

•
A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
- I must have saffron to colour the warden pies […] — 1610
•
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
- […] The stately Ram Shone thro’ the Mead, in native Purple clad, Or milder Saffron […] — 1749
•
A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus.
- Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron […] — 1611

adjective2

•
Having an orange-yellow colour.
- The sun was now set; but, under the dark branches of the almond trees, was seen the saffron glow of the west, spreading beyond the twilight of middle air. — 1794
•
Associated with Hinduism, Hindus or Hindu nationalism.
- Saffron voters will certainly respond to the Sena chief’s call to support this alliance. — 2012

forms

saffroned · saffroning · saffrons

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