/red"fig'yeuhr/ , adj.
pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries B.C., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
Also, red-figured . Cf. black-figure .
[ 1890-95 ]