Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deep to vivid purplish red.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Cherry color.
- Cherry-colored.
Wiktionary
- n. A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
- adj. Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
- n. a red the color of ripe cherries
Etymologies
- From French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia. Doublet of cherry. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, cherry; see cherry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Emile Henry 9-inch Provencal pie dish in cerise red”
“•She favors oversized shades, including these Oliver Peoples hip Sofiane sunglasses in cerise. $390 at oliverpeoples. com”
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
“Think of a cherry-coloured velvet filling half the picture -- the pale cherry pink known as cerise -- with mauve lights, and behind it pale yellowish draperies and an Aubasson carpet under the lady's feet.”
“She kept the 60s ceiling cornice white and injected mustard, cerise and aubergine shades into the room with velvet and satin fabrics.”
“A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen.”
“At the first day of the PGA Championship Thursday, Woods's shirt was pink technically, cerise, a color he had worn just three other times in majors.”
The Wall Street Journal: Maybe the Problem Is Tiger's Wardrobe
“Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel, $18 Very pretty cerise rosé; spicy nose which carries through on the palate.”
The Wall Street Journal: A.J. Liebling's Favorite Rosé, Perfect for Summer
“She is beyond beautiful barefoot in a white gown that discloses the lace of a cerise brassiere.”
The Huffington Post: S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment
“Marlana Rountree was out for yet another walk with her daughter, Amber; they're the ones in the matching cerise pink shirts with "No More Boobie Monsters" written across their backs.”
The Washington Post: Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure fundraising walk hits the Washington area
“These stronger fragrances are like the darker, richer summer colors: Think cerise, khaki and navy blue versus peony pink, pale green and white.”
The Wall Street Journal: In the Mood for Fragrant Nights in the Garden
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cerise’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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Crayon Colors
This is a continuing list of Crayon Colors past and present. As I find new ones added to the "box", I will add them here as well!
black, blue, brown, apricot, bittersweet, blue green, blue violet, brick red, burnt sienna, carnation pink, cornflower, flesh and 134 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
Ballardoperation mindfuck, pataphysics, wahrheitssensible..., polymorphism, postprandial, covalent, stygian, lucus a non lucendo, kafkaesque, leitmotif, fugacious, ablate and 77 more...
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New Words
idiopathic, quidditas, cloacal, peregrination, cyclamen, expatiate, pedantic, salonniere, manque, pelagic, exogenous, pellucid and 83 more...
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Colors
Different words for colors; ex: florid, cerise, claret, etc.
cerise, florid, claret, chartreuse, watchet, argent, tawny, xanthous, rosaceous, ocher, pewter, coquelicot and 3 more...
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Words I Intend to use.
selectarian, solastalgia, niefling, eldritch, santagnostic, laborious, obstreperous, quibble, inusitate, cacology, tmesis, cacoethes and 50 more...
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colors!
xanthous, rubicund, arsigont, aubergine, caerulean, cerise, parti-colored, bay, verdant, empurple, vermilion, paris green and 1 more...
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Pink
hot pink, fuchsia, magenta, lavender, cherry blossom, amaranth, cerise, coral, salmon, shocking, pig
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cerise.
knitandpurl "Finally, before leaving the picture, my eyes came back to the shore, swarming with the everyday Venetian life of the period. I looked at the barber wiping his razor, at the negro humping his barrel, at the Muslims conversing, at the noblemen in wide-sleeved brocade and damask robes and hats of cerise velvet, and suddenly I felt a slight gnawing at my heart."
--The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 877 of the Modern Library paperback edition Feb 22, 2010
knitandpurl "The ships were massive, built like pieces of architecture, and seemed almost amphibious, like lesser Venices set in the heart of the greater, when, moored to the banks by gangways decked with crimson satin and Persian carpets, they bore their freight of ladies in cerise brocade and green damask close under the balconies incrusted with multicoloured marble from which other ladies leaned to gaze at them, in gowns with black sleeves slashed with white pearls or bordered with lace."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 653 of the Modern Library paperback edition May 7, 2008