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arrebol

English translation: Sunset red

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Spanish term or phrase:arrebol
English translation:Sunset red
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

11:53 Mar 21, 2023
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Spanish term or phrase: arrebol
This seems to refer to a particular shade of red:

El niño de nueve años que era entonces observó como un haz de luz entraba por una ventana y, atravesando una hilera de botellas de rojas, llegó hasta su camisa blanca coloreándola de un rojo arrebolado. Esta imagen quedó por siempre en su memoria.

The text is about the childhood experiences of a major 20th-century artist.
It seems to have to do with the red of low cloud at sunset...Orange-red?
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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 22:17
Sunset red
Explanation:
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Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:17
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Sunset red
Andrew Bramhall
4red coloured
Alberto de Antonio Rivera
3 +1fiery red/orange red
Marie Wilson
3 +1(giving his shirt) a reddish glow
ormiston
4Afterglow
Maria Benitez Aquino
3iridescent red
Muriel Vasconcellos
Summary of reference entries provided
Easily found
AllegroTrans

Discussion entries: 9





  

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red coloured


Explanation:
According to the "Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española". See reference website.


    https://dle.rae.es/arrebol?m=form
Alberto de Antonio Rivera
Spain
Local time: 03:17
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: No, it is not merely red coloured
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
fiery red/orange red


Explanation:
As you say, mostly about sunset colours.
arrebolados 91
Ruborizados, apenados. Que adquieren un color rojizo-anaranjado. De color cobrizo
https://www.significadode.org/arrebolados.htm

Example sentence(s):
  • The sky changes from orange into a fiery red by a storm brewing over the silhouette of a treetop
  • The fox's coat was fiery red, like a burning ember
Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 03:17
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agree  AllegroTrans
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Sunset red


Explanation:
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Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alan Otero
5 hrs
  -> Thanks Alan! Yes, it's recognised as a colour in UK colour charts,
agree  AllegroTrans
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
iridescent red


Explanation:
Another option.

Hard to find examples...



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 18:17
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1 day 4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(giving his shirt) a reddish glow


Explanation:
As suggested by Allegrotrans. And it avoids a repeat of red

ormiston
Local time: 03:17
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agree  Chema Nieto Castañón
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Afterglow


Explanation:


Other options: crimson glow/redglow


    https://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/sunset/
    https://en.bab.la/dictionary/spanish-english/arrebol
Maria Benitez Aquino
Paraguay
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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Reference comments


56 mins peer agreement (net): +3
Reference: Easily found

Reference information:
Noun

arrebol m (plural arreboles)

rouge (makeup)
the red glow of the sky

Derived terms

arrebolada

Further reading

“arrebol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard
29 mins
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agree  O G V: no es frecuente pero sí sencillo de descubrir
1 hr
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agree  Chema Nieto Castañón: Arrebolado would rather be a reddish glow than a sunset red... Not such an easy one, really. And I would use "reddish glow" rather than "red glow" to refer to (rojo) arrebolado.
9 hrs
  -> thanks, many sunsets that I have seen could easily be described as having a "reddish glow"
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