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adjective
- shining or glowing with red light
- 1922: Mother"s milk, Purefoy, the milk of human kin, milk too of those burgeoning stars overhead, in thin rainvapour, punch milk, such as those rioters will quaff in their guzzlingden, milk of madness, the honeymilk of Canaan"s land. " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Latin rutilant-, present participle of rutilare, from rutilus "reddish".
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