Definizione monolingua

brimstone

brimstone (countable and uncountable; plural brimstones)

1. Sulphur.
2. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
3. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

   You are a brimstone pig. Youre a head of swine! — Charles Dickens, Bleak House

   Youre a brimstone idiot. — Charles Dickens, Bleak House

4. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

brimstone

1. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.

   [W]ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine. — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller

   [A] cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him. — Thomas Hardy Tess of the dUrbevilles

   • [...] he gave vent to a succession of sounds, not unlike the drawing of some eight or ten dozen of long corks, and again asserted his brimstone birth and parentage with great distinctness. — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
   • I wish your brimstone grandmother was here, and hed shave her head off. — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
   • From his brimstone bed at break of day / A walking the Devil is gone. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Definizione dizionario brimstone

	Gonepteryx rhamni
	Brimstone (butterfly)

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The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family. Category:Butterflies

(archaic) Used '''attributively''' as an intensifier in exclamations.

sulphur

butterfly species

Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.

The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.

Sulphur.