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rutilant

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ru⋅ti⋅lant

  [root-l-uhnt]
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–adjective
glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
Origin:
1490–1500; < L rutilant- (s. of rutilāns, prp. of rutilāre to glow red), equiv. to rutil(us) red, reddish + -ant- -ant
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ru·ti·lant   (rōōt'l-ənt)   
adj.  Bright red.

[Middle English rutilaunt, from Latin rutilāns, rutilant-, present participle of rutilāre, to make red, to be reddish, from rutilus, red, reddish; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]
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