What does pillar-box red mean?

pillar-box red

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

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noun

A bright red colour, like that of a British post box.

adj

Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.

"‘All right. And if there were no “ladies” in the vicinity?’ ¶ ‘Well, you can always,’ and here Archie went a pillar-box red, this being his own version of cementing a friendship, ‘slap the salami, as the GIs say!’"

pillar-box reds (plural)

pillar box

pillar box

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