Question

rufous [of the Rocky Mountains] Pharaonic, phallic, ‘too prehistoric for words’ (blasé Lo); buttes of black lava; early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines; end-of-the-summer mountains, all hunched up, their heavy Egyptian limbs folder under folds of tawny moth-eaten plush; oatmeal hills, flecked with green round oaks; a last rufous mountain with a rich rug of lucerne at its foot.

Accepted Answer

n. Reddish-brown; the color of rust. Lolita, II.2, p. 165

Word	rufous
Definition	n. Reddish-brown; the color of rust.
Sentence	[of the Rocky Mountains] Pharaonic, phallic, ‘too prehistoric for words’ (blasé Lo); buttes of black lava; early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines; end-of-the-summer mountains, all hunched up, their heavy Egyptian limbs folder under folds of tawny moth-eaten plush; oatmeal hills, flecked with green round oaks; a last rufous mountain with a rich rug of lucerne at its foot.
Source	Lolita, II.2, p. 165

Rufous N Reddish Brown Color Rust Rocky Mountains Pharaonic