All 6 Uses of

lurid
in
A Streetcar Named Desire

The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of childhood's spectrum.†
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Blanche: Don't come in here [Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche.†
Scene 3.10

The shadows and lurid reflections move sinuously as flames along the wall spaces.†
Scene 3.10

The atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night.†
Scene 3.11

The lurid reflections fade from the walls, the inhuman cries and noises die out and her own hoarse crying is calmed.†
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Definitions:

(1) (lurid)
shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Long ago, lurid referred to a yellowish color or things and from there to things so shocking they make someone turn pale. Later, but still in the 18th century, it was used to describe a vivid red and is still used to describe vivid colors--especially red.