[sawl-fe-ree-naw for 1; sol-fuh-ree-noh for 2, 3] 
| 1. | a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811. |
| 2. | (lowercase ) a dye obtained from rosaniline. |
| 3. | (lowercase) vivid purplish pink. |
| sol·fe·ri·no (sōl'fə-rē'nō) n. A moderate purplish red. [After Solferino, a village of northern Italy, from the discovery of a dye of this color in the same year that a battle was fought there (1859).] |