sulphureous
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sʌlˈf(j)ɔːɹɪəs/
Adjective
sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)
- (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
- An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
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