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📚 adj • entry_id 2151

carmine

/ˈkɑːmaɪn/
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carmín
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
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📚 noun • entry_id 2150

carmine

/ˈkɑːmaɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carmín
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html Cases of cuba…
carmín
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm,
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