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sol·fe·ri·no

(sōl′fə-rē′nō)

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).]

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solferino

(ˌsɒlfəˈriːnəʊ)

(Colours)

a. a moderate purplish-red colour

b. (as adjective): a solferino suit.

[C19: from a dye discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino, a town in Italy]

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Noun	1.	solferino - a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino purplish pink pink - a light shade of red
	2.	Solferino - an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I battle of Solferino Italia, Italian Republic, Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

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"Do you remember the battle of Solferino, Max--and the Austrian soldier I operated on for a wound on the head?"

"I am not satisfied with the result of that operation at Solferino," he said; "I have wanted to try again ever since.

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Solferino!--Soap, you son of a gun!' Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity."

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Cabernet Sauvignon grapevine (V vinifera L.) was grafted on fifteen rootstocks, namely Rupestris du Lot, 101-14 Millardet et de Grasset, 3309 Couderc, 420A Millardet et de Grasset, 5BB Kober, 161-49 Couderc, SO4, 1103 Paulsen, 99 Richter, 110 Richter, Gravesac, Fercal, Dogridge, Isabel and Solferino (local name of an unknown rootstock).

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Grace, Kieran and Ryan will meanwhile be producing poached lobster with Solferino vegetables, cold tomato essence, saffron and paprika oil; roast chicken breast and drumstick, crispy skin, olive crumb, roasted red pepper puree, kale, chickpeas and chorizo and a smoky jus and a Pastel de Nata - chocolate and almond crumb, cherry gel and chocolate sorbet.

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1859: Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman travelling through Italy, saw the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino and was inspired to found the International Red Cross.

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1859: Henri Dunant, above right, a Swiss businessman travelling through Italy, saw the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino and was inspired to found the International Red Cross.

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Summary: In 1859, a Swiss citizen, Henri Dunant, arrived in Solferino following a crucial battle in the Second Italian War of Independence.

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While in present-day, Italy Dunant witnessed the Battle of Solferino, in which some 40,000 troops were killed or wounded in a single day.

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LNRCS field officer Joseph Nyema says the exercise is held May each year to commemorate the birth of the founder of the Red Cross, aHenry Dunant.The Red Cross idea was born in 1859, when Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, went on the scene of a bloody battle in Solferino, Italy, between the armies of imperial Austria and the Franco-Sardinian alliance.