oxblood

noun

1. (uncountable)A dark brownish-red colour.
2. (uncountable)The blood of an ox.

   “[…] we can change clothes, and with the aid of a bottle of oxblood, which is secreted about my person, we will deceive the tyrant, and spare a nobleman who does honour to Japan.”

   “Gibreel smiles to himself, then quietly slides the window slightly open, lifts his glass of Coca Cola and pours it quickly into the water below. As he slides the window shut, his eyes meet Mira’s again and he smiles at her much more frankly. Then he guffaws and says, apparently to his partner but really across at her and loudly enough for her to hear: I don’t drink oxblood. Isn’t it, he adds for Indian idiom and bursts out laughing.”

   “Animal products like blood, urine, manure, casein and animal glue have been used through the centuries to stabilise loam. Oxblood was commonly used as a binding and stabilising agent in former times. In Germany, the surfaces of rammed earth floors were treated with oxblood rendering them abrasion and wipe resistant.”

   “Ryckeboer’s map shows the different complementisers used in the sentence Ik moet ossebloed drinken om te verkloeken lit. I must oxblood drink for to recover ‘I have to drink oxblood to recover.’”

adj

1. Of a dark brownish-red colour.

   “He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.”