oxblood red

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   a dark brownish-red color

   Broaderdark red

Questions about oxblood red

What does oxblood red mean?

oxblood red means "a dark brownish-red color".

Is oxblood red a common word?

oxblood red is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.