Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Crimson.
  • noun Crimson cloth.

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

  • adjective obsolete Crimson.

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  • adjective obsolete crimson

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • The coffin was laid in the middle of the church upon trestles, which were covered by “a cramoisie velvet pall.”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • On other occasions he is attired in a dark-brown coat, with a velvet collar, a white neckerchief, in which a thin gold watch-chain is entwined, a waistcoat with a collar of _cramoisie_ and gold stars, an under-waistcoat of white satin, embroidered with gold flowers, full black pantaloons, spun silk stockings, and short square shoes.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • “For my part, ” said the elder, “I shall wear a velvet cramoisie trimmed à l’Anglaise”—for she had a passion for cramoisie, and could not perceive how ill the colour went with her complexion.

    Cinderella or the little Glass Slipper. 1910

  • Payne Burton I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • The coffin was laid in the middle of the church upon trestles, which were covered by "a cramoisie velvet pall."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • On other occasions he is attired in a dark-brown coat, with a velvet collar, a white neckerchief, in which a thin gold watch-chain is entwined, a waistcoat with a collar of cramoisie and gold stars, an under-waistcoat of white satin, embroidered with gold flowers, full black pantaloons, spun silk stockings, and short square shoes.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • The coffin was laid in the middle of the church upon trestles, which were covered by "a cramoisie velvet pall."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Panting a little, the woman came towards him across the many-hued marble floors; and, as she passed, a vase of great white lilies caught in her draperies of cramoisie and fell.

    Gathering of Brother Hilarius Michael Fairless 1885

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  • I like my cheesecake framboise-y,

    A scarlet and ivory jamboree

    The cake’s at its best

    When liberally blessed

    With berries all lushly cramoisie.

    September 4, 2018