incarnadine

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Again, he would change the word incarnadine to incarnate on the ground that Twelfth Night V offers a similar instance of the corrupt use of incardinate for incarnate_.

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  1. adjective Of a fleshy pink color.
  2. adjective Blood-red.
  3. transitive verb To make incarnadine, especially to redden.

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  • By tying things together and creating a greater sense of interrelatedness, you can convert mantelpiece gum into incarnadine fish. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • Again, he would change the word incarnadine to incarnate on the ground that Twelfth Night V offers a similar instance of the corrupt use of incardinate for incarnate_. —  An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
  • Lullaby, supreme, annannamannannaharoumlemay, immemorial, lillibulero, burbled, and incarnadine were liked by most, while zigzag and shigsback were not liked. —  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • He dyes the sky orange, and the sea "incarnadine," where its violet surface is stained by his rays, and he mercilessly puts to flight the mists and haze and the little agate-coloured masses of cloud that were before floating in the firmament. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 1
  • A later attempt at Paris to "incarnadine" the neighborhood of the Champs de Mars, and "round up" a number of boulevardiers, met with a more disastrous result,--the gleam of steel from mounted gendarmes, and a mandate to his employers So it came that one night, after the conclusion of the performance, Alkali Dick rode out of the corral gate of the Hippodrome with his last week's salary in his pocket and an imprecation on his lips. —  Tales of Trail and Town
 

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  1. French incarnadin, from Italian incarnadino, variant of incarnatino, diminutive of incarnato : in-, in (from Latin; see in-2) + carne, flesh (from Latin carō, carn-; see incarnate).

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  1. from French incarnadin, for *incarnatin (= Spanish encarnadino, flesh-colored), from incarnat, flesh-colored: see incarnate, a.
  2. from incarnadine, adjective
 

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/ɪnˈkɑrnədɪn/
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