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Crimson and Carmine Definitions

Crimson

A deep to vivid purplish red to vivid red.

Carmine

A strong to vivid red.

Crimson

To make or become deeply or vividly red.

Carmine

A crimson pigment derived from cochineal.

Crimson

A deep, slightly bluish red.

Carmine

Strong to vivid red.
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Crimson

Having a deep red colour.

Carmine

A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.

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Carmine

A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.

Crimson

(intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.

Carmine

Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
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Crimson

(transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Carmine

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

Crimson

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.

Carmine

A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.

Crimson

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
The blushing poppy with a crimson hue.

Carmine

The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; - hence called also carminic acid.
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Crimson

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.

Carmine

A variable color averaging a vivid red

Crimson

To become crimson; to blush.
Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.

Carmine

Color carmine

Crimson

A deep and vivid red

Carmine

Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Crimson

Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

Crimson

Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Crimson

Characterized by violence or bloodshed;
Writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days
Fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing
Convulsed with red rage

Crimson

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;
Crimson with fury
Turned red from exertion
With puffy reddened eyes
Red-faced and violent
Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

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