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(obsolete, transitive, poetic) To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red..
1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss.
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Envermeil means (obsolete, transitive, poetic) To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red..
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1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss.
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