English Dictionary

saffron

/ˈsæfɹən/

verb

To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc. / To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye. / To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.

I saffroned the rice to give it a rich yellow color.

意味（1）

To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.

saffroned water, saffroned rice.

意味（2）

To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.

The other part Northern, & ful of mountaines, a very rude and homely kinde of people doth inhabite, which are called the redshankes or wilde Scottes. They be clothed with a mantel and shyrte saffroned, after the Irishe manner, going bare legged to the knée.

意味（3）

To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.

His horse was harnished with leaden chaines, hauing the out-side guilt, or at least saffrond in stead of guilt, to decypher a holie or golden pretence of a couetous purpose […]

意味（4）

(figuratively) To embellish.

Saffroning the rest of the account are several other regionalisms: agin for against, hit for the expletive it, knowed as a preterite, and no use to say not bin' (a fascinating doubling of the negative).