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- noun A
reddish -orange pigment ,mercuric sulfide (HgS), originally derived fromcinnabar . - noun The
colour of this pigment. - noun The red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face.
- adjective Having such a colour.
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- adjective of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
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Examples
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For all-around fishing use I would go with an amber lense, although vermillion is also a good choice.
Hey I've got a question about polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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For all-around fishing use I would go with an amber lense, although vermillion is also a good choice.
Hey I've got a question about polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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Matisse even tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade his friend Claude Renoir to change from the traditional red paint called vermillion to cadmium red.
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Matisse even tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade his friend Claude Renoir to change from the traditional red paint called vermillion to cadmium red.
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After this they bring out _Oorakins_, (bowls of bark) full of that coarse vermillion which is found along the coast of Chibucto, and on the west-side of Acadia (Nova-Scotia) which they moisten with the blood of the animal if any remains, and add water to compleat the dilution.
An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton Antoine Simon Maillard 1736
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The same concrete blocks, the same hardwearing floor materials and off-square placement of spaces, exposed beams, wooden ceilings and vermillion furniture.
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Colors are vibrant and exciting- vermillion, tangerine, jade and azure are grounded by chocolate brown and indigo.'
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Chances of that editorial being quoted tonight: vermillion.8.37pm: In a way, tonight's debate a time for sadness.
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Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press HOLY MAN: A Hindu holy man applies tilak, or vermillion paste, after taking a dip on the banks of the River Ganges on the occasion of Guru Purnima, the full moon day dedicated to the Guru or masters in one's life, in Allahabad, India, Friday.
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Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Hindu priest applied vermillion paste on the forehead of a man during the festival, June 9.
A Day of Festivities 2011
oroboros commented on the word vermillion
Oddly enough, I first ran across this word in my philately days, not in an erotic novel. You'd be surprised how many postage stamps have official coloration: vermillion! Thus I didn't have to consult a dictionary when I did discover it in racy literature... ;oD
September 15, 2007
sionnach commented on the word vermillion
The Windhover
To Christ Our Lord
I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
Gerald Manley Hopkins
April 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word vermillion
One of my favorite poems (in fact, I think I posted it here somewhere). Thanks, sionnach.
April 25, 2008
oroboros commented on the word vermillion
"In 'Paint-by-Number' how many zeroes in a vermillion?" --from a Frazz cartoon
April 10, 2010
JTroyer commented on the word vermillion
"He was lost in in a wash of ruby and vermillion..." The Shack and WM Paul
October 1, 2010
voxel-ux commented on the word vermillion
This word is so pleasing to the ear.
October 13, 2014