Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brownish orange.
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- noun A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.
- adjective Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Low on a titian horizon, it was sad and dim and far away.
The Suicide of Superman (Redux) J. Bear Savo 2011
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For those of you like myself (of the titian persuasion) I digress here to insert an interesting side note on a myth on red hair which historically has many superstitions attached to in (Van Gogh had red hair too).
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The summer scent of jasmine lifts from a tide of titian hair, and there is no hesitation now, no U-turn, no braking, only relentless forward motion.
Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010
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The summer scent of jasmine lifts from a tide of titian hair, and there is no hesitation now, no U-turn, no braking, only relentless forward motion.
Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010
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The summer scent of jasmine lifts from a tide of titian hair, and there is no hesitation now, no U-turn, no braking, only relentless forward motion.
Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010
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Hell Yes Bring Back a Next Gen Series like titian please I miss star trek on tv ...
Former ‘Star Trek’ Scribe Bryan Fuller Calls For Franchise’s Return To TV » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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The summer scent of jasmine lifts from a tide of titian hair, and there is no hesitation now, no U-turn, no braking, only relentless forward motion.
Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010
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Terribly ungallant, I know, but he did make an exception for one titian-haired publisher I won't embarrass here.
Food, Frolic, and the Fall of Rome Roger Sutton 2006
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Our titian blonde heroine, of course, solved the case easily.
Life in the Old Girl Yet Roger Sutton 2006
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One of the more famous stories is Eirik the Red's Saga where the scribes tell us that the titian-haired Viking settled at Eiriksfjorde in Greenland.
metaeuphoria commented on the word titian
the only eponymous adjective that exactly the same as whom it named for
February 4, 2007