oxbloodEtymologyFrom ox + blood.adjOf a dark brownish-red colour.“He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.”nounA dark brownish-red colour.The blood of an ox.“[…] we can change clothes, and with the aid of a bottle of oxblood, which is secreted about my person, we will deceive the tyrant, and spare a nobleman who does honour to Japan.”