Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wild poppy; corn-rose; hence, the color of wild poppy; a color nearly red, or red mixed with orange.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The wild poppy, or red corn rose.
  • noun The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.

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Examples

  • I would love to send you a bunch of wild coquelicot from a field just outside Paris ☻ ☻

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • For example: un coquelicot (or poppy) for Jules from Maine ... or "un oeillet jaune (a yellow carnation) from Beijing" ....

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • We were ushered in to the waiting room, which was so very quiet and civilized, and offered a cup of coquelicot tea.

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • For example: un coquelicot (or poppy) for Jules from Maine ... or "un oeillet jaune (a yellow carnation) from Beijing" ....

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Un coquelicot pour Jules de la part de Terry a Mill Valley.

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • And how could you not like a word like coquelicot that evokes an instant image of a field of lovely red poppies swaying in the breeze under a brilliant blue Provencal sky?

    attrape-tout - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • For example: un coquelicot (or poppy) for Jules from Maine ... or "un oeillet jaune (a yellow carnation) from Beijing" ....

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • For example: un coquelicot (or poppy) for Jules from Maine... or "un oeillet jaune (a yellow carnation) from Beijing"....

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • We were ushered in to the waiting room, which was so very quiet and civilized, and offered a cup of coquelicot tea.

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Un coquelicot pour Jules de la part de Terry a Mill Valley.

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

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  • poppy-colored: brilliant red with orange.

    Jane Austen's letter to her sister Cassandra, Dec. 18, 1798:

    I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter. After the ball I shall probably make it entirely black.

    The fact that so many fashionable women wore coquelicot (poppy red) was probably intentional. Whistler often asked his lady friends to dress in colors that would harmonize with his designs, and one of the most vibrant "notes" that echoed through the installation was that rung by the bright poppy reds that dominate several of the most striking figure paintings ...

    – Kenneth John Myers, Mr. Whistler's gallery: the art of displaying art, Magazine Antiques, Nov. 1, 2003

    November 5, 2007