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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rubescent /rʊˈbɛs(ə)nt/

▶adjective chiefly literary reddening; blushing.

– origin C18: from L. rubescent-, rubescere ‘redden’, from ruber ‘red’.

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