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Isabelline means (chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow..
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/ɪzəˈbɛlɪn/ · adjective
(chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow..
The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.
As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].
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Isabelline means (chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow..
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The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.
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