Incarnadine

Quick meaning: Incarnadine is an adjective meaning (originally) Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.

Meaning

(originally) Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.

More Meanings

1. Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
2. (figurative) Bloodstained, bloody.
3. (generally) Of a red colour.
4. (originally) The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
5. The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
6. (generally) A red colour.
7. (transitive, originally) To make flesh-coloured.

Example Sentences

Incarnadine, or Incarnate, that is of a bright Carnation or Fleſh Colour, or of the Colour of a Damask-Roſe.

Let the wine incarnadine, / In crystal goblets gleaming, / Be the sign, O muse divine, / Of golden moments teeming.

The bandages on his hands – cerise and incarnadine, opalescent and viridian – were grotesqueries that only emphasised his stature.

Green orchards with ripe fruit incarnadine, / Each several member autumn-canopied / So thickly as to bend beneath its freight, [...]

Word Forms

• incarnadines
• incarnadining
• incarnadined

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include encarnadine, incarnate, carnationed, incarmined, crimson, scarlet.

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