cramoisy

• My said lord was clad in ducal array except for his hat The emperor wore a rich robe of cloth of gold of cramoisy, and his son was in a robe of green damask. —  Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
• Presently they brought forward Shahrazad and displayed her, for the first dress, in a red suit; whereupon King Shahriyar rose to look upon her and the wits of all present, men and women, were bewitched for that she was even as saith of her one of her describers[FN#117 A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, * Clad in her cramoisy-hued chemisette: Of her lips' honey-dew she gave me drink * And with her rosy cheeks quencht fire she set Then they attired Dunyazad in a dress of blue brocade and she became as she were the full moon when it shineth forth. —  Arabian nights. English
• The archers and halberdiers of his bodyguard were magnificent in taffety and feathers and surcoats of cramoisy velvet. —  History of the United Netherlands, 1590b
• On couch of Tyrian cramoisy —  The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
• A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, * Clad in her cramoisy-hued chemisette: —  Arabian nights. English

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