Carmine

Quick meaning: Carmine is a noun meaning A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
2. Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

Example Sentences

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,

The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'

[…] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]

Word Forms

• carmines

Synonyms for carmine

Depending on context, synonyms include crimson, cochineal, cardinal, chromatic, ruddy, cherry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scarlet, crimson, red, ruddy, cerise, ruby.

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