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noun
- sulphur, Sulphur.
- The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
- (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
- 'You are a pig. You're a head of swine!' — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- 'You're a idiot.' — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni.
adjective
- Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
- 'Who walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller
- 'A cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain flames around him.' — Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbevilles
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