blood-red

blood-red (comparative more blood-red, superlative most blood-red)

1. Alternative form of blood red
   • 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter XII, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 176:

     The sun went down blood-red, and, in its dying glories, the crescent moon shewed first pale, then glowing; […]