Rood zoeken
In alle creatieve disciplines wordt gebruik gemaakt van computers en de trend is dat alle kunst steeds meer ‘computer assisted’ wordt. Wat de poëzie betreft zal o.a. het zoeken naar formuleringen steeds gemakkelijker worden, door de verbetering van doorzoekbare databases met geschreven tekst. Stel dat je op zoek bent naar een rake aanduiding van iets roods. Wat kun je dan nu al binnen een kwartier gemakkelijk vinden?
Tekst googlen naar ‘zo rood als’, ‘as red as’…
zo rood als (een) …
aardbei
biet
bloed
boei
brulboei
Ferrari
jongen bij de omroep
kalikoetse haan
kalkoen
kalkoensehaan
krab
kreeft
kroot
papaver
paprika
peper
pioen
robijn
roos
scharlaken
tomaat
Turkoos
vuur
as red as/like (a(n))
as your stockings are blue
beet
beetroot
blisters
blood
drunkard’s nose
Irish sunset
Irishman on holiday (in the Canaries)
Irishman’s beard hair
Irishman’s nose on St. Patrick’s
romance
rouge comme…
bas-rouge
écrevisse
coq
homard
pivoine
tomate
Archive.org, A Dictionary of Similes
Red as (a(n))… / red as the
any rose in June
cardinal
beet
blister
brick
cherry
coal
danger signal
hunters’ face
petticoat
red wagon
Roger’s nose, who was christened with pump water
asoka flowers
turkey cock
fields of heather on fire
fire of a pipe
heather bell
the ishrik seeds
plum
wine out of season
[a face as red as that of] the foggiest rising rising moon
the highest colour’d Gallic wine
fox
blood
rose
tile
beetroot
gore
beef
sangaree
as deep as bull’s blood
blood drops from a wounde heart
coral
dry red, like old blood
hue as red as the rosy bed
slaughter
fire of a furnace
beacon the wind has upblown
as if he were going to choke
red with passion as the protuberance of a turkey-cock when gobbling out its unutterable feelings of disdain
murder
British army
dawn
lobster
Cupid’s bed of red rose-leaves on Mount Hymettus
mazer from an elder-tree
Mont Blanc at morning glows
forge’s mouth
as from the broken heart
like a ruby
fire
Mars
new-enkindled fire
Titan’s face
as it had drunk the evening beams
like roses in a bed of lillies shed
dawn
hate
hot brows of shame
love or shame
morning’s rise
rains of hell
poppy
mountain-ash berries
Baldwinsville skoolhouse
reddest ruby
banner which enshrouds the warrior-dead when strife is done
naked hand of doom
ruddy clover
Google image search naar ‘red things’ e.d.
Britse telefooncel, brievenbus, dubbeldekker
Framboos
rode beuk
rode jurk
stopbord
gestifte lippen
hart
sportwagen
rode draak van Wales
bessen
dragon fruit
kidney beans
radijsjes
stopknop
Google books (corpus)
beefen from her own orchard
boiled lobster
boiled shrimp
brick
burning coal
cardinal-flower
carrot
city in flames
comet
devil’s in the light from the nearby fire
dozen emery bags combined
ferret’s
fireman’s shirt
flaming fire
fox’s brush
French infantryman’s trousers
fresh capsicum
holly berry
lobster’s shell
maraschino cherry
marine’s jacket
nut
peony
piece of beef
piece of scarlet cloth
poppy
raspberry
salamander
spanked baby’s bottom
strawberry when it is rip
student whose teacher catches her kissing
tile
turf fire
turkey-cock’s gills
young man’s blood
