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countable and uncountable, plural citrines
A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon. quotations examples
[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]
dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242
A brownish-yellow quartz. examples
not comparable
Of a goldish-yellow colour. quotations examples
The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.
1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 3, in The Shadow of the Torturer