As saffron tingeth: Chaucer uses "saffron" metaphorically as a verb: -- "And in Latyn I speke a wordes fewe, To saffron with my predicacioun, And for to stire men to devocioun." -- `The Pardoner's Prologue'.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
In the hallway above, the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy numbers on the doors. He turned the knob on Number 9, entered and closed the door behind him.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Flooded with sheeny waves the marble floor, When from his nook up leapt the venturous lad, And flinging wide the cedar-carven door Beheld an awful image saffron-clad And armed for battle! the gaunt Griffin glared From the huge helm, and the long lance of wreck and ruin flared英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
By this time we were in my old quarters, and Janet, with her bottle of cordial in one hand and the glass in the other, had forced on me a dram of usquebaugh, distilled with saffron and other herbs, after some old-fashioned Highland receipt. Then was unfolded, out of many a little scrap of paper, the reserved sum of fifteen shillings, which Janet had treasured for twenty years and upwards.英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
CYRANO: Was't a hundred years--a minute, since? --I cannot guess what time that fall embraced!-- That I was in that saffron-colored ball?英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
"In my wanderings over the face of the earth, I have picked up some excellent remedies, and, as they are rather agreeable ones, I think you and I will try them. This is a herb-pillow, given to me by a wise old woman when I was ill in India. It is filled with saffron, poppies, and other soothing plants; so lay your little head on it to-night, sleep sweetly without a dream, and wake to-morrow without a pain."英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
Or you fancy a little asparagus salad with Champagne saffron vinaigrette.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
You add a pinch of saffron, it makes all the difference.美剧 · 《Friends》
It was highlighted by the gorgeous aria of her saffron-infused emulsion. " this guy can't decide if you're a cook or a composer:电影 · 《No Reservations (2007)》