Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vermilion or a similar bright red color.
- n. Gilded silver, bronze, or copper.
- adj. Bright red in color.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bright red; vermilion; the color of vermilion. Also used adjeetively, and frequently as the first element of a compound.
- n. Silver gilt.
- n. In gilding, a liquid composed of arnotto, gamboge, vermilion, dragon's-blood, salt of tartar, and saffron, boiled in water and applied to a surface that is to be gilded, to give luster to the gold.
- n. A crimson-red garnet inclining slightly to orange: a jewelers' name.
Wiktionary
- adj. poetic Bright scarlet, vermilion.
- adj. poetic Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
- n. poetic Vermilion; bright red.
- n. silver gilt or gilt bronze.
- n. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Poetic & R. Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
- n. Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
- n. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
Etymologies
- From French vermeil ("vermilion"), from Latin vermiculus, from Latin vermiculus (a little worm), the coccus Indicus, from vermis (a worm) (Wiktionary)
- Middle English vermail, from Old French vermeil, from Late Latin vermiculus, a kind of red worm, from Latin, grub, diminutive of vermis, worm; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids.”
The Washington Post: White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
“The Green Room's bouquet was in a vermeil bamboo-motif container acquired by Jackie Kennedy.”
The Washington Post: The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
“At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids.”
The Washington Post: The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
“Past the gilded harp and the bamboo chairs awaiting arrangement, we march upstairs to the East Room, where the patina of history (these are the famous portraits of George and Martha Washington, these are the iconic nineteenth-century chandeliers) has been freshened for the evening with flowers for the tables and arrangements of cacti for the mantles, with the Clinton china and vermeil flatware and tiny gilded eagle place card holders sans cards.”
The Huffington Post: Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
“Guests also helped themselves to the vermeil eagle place card holders.”
“We decorated the State Dining Room with white roses in vermeil vases and used the gold-edged Clinton china.”
“Past the gilded harp and the bamboo chairs awaiting arrangement, we march upstairs to the East Room, where the patina of history these are the famous portraits of George and Martha Washington, these are the iconic nineteenth-century chandeliers has been freshened for the evening with flowers for the tables and arrangements of cacti for the mantles, with the Clinton china and vermeil flatware and tiny gilded eagle place card holders sans cards.”
The Huffington Post: Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
“Sterling and vermeil jewelry designs from Rebecca Norman were also available.”
The Silver Spoon MTV Movie Awards Hollywood Buffet Honors Celebrities in Eco-Friendly Style
“Laura Bush had classic taste and preferred white roses in the antique vases found in the White House vermeil collection.”
“Laura Bush had more classic taste and often used the ornate pieces from the White House antique vermeil collection.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vermeil’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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250 More Spelling Words
More words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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phrontistery-v
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vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, red, descriptive, randomness )red, Red, Pink, Cloud, Salmon, Rose, Coral(Pink/Red/Dark), Cramoisy/Modena/C..., Raspberry, Rubious/Ruby, Tomato, Sanguineous/Blood and 483 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 339 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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School Words
hagiography, antediluvian, rakish, impeccable, hackneyed, irascible, nascent, teetotaller, suffragette, amiable, expiate, turbulent and 110 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vermeil.
brtom What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the Morn?
Milton, Comus Dec 16, 2006