cinnabar

• A sweep of best clothes, old men in camphor-stinking black jackets that gnawed their underarms, women in silk and fine wools in the colors of camel, cinnabar, cayenne, bronze, persimmon, periwinkle, Aztec red. —  The Shipping News
• The remarkable centerpiece of the room was a beautiful, cinnabar-red spice rack that had been mounted above the stove. —  CourtingTrouble
• Copper is abundant; tin, cinnabar, sulphur, and coal exist. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• The reds seem for the most part to be composed of oxide of iron mixed with lime, and were probably limited to iron earths and ochres, with a native cinnabar or vermilion. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• RED LEAD Minium_, or Saturnine Red_, is an ancient pigment, by some old writers confounded with cinnabar, and termed Sinoper or Synoper. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

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