Incarnadine

/ɪnˈkɑːnədiːn/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (originally) Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
2. Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
3. (figurative) Bloodstained, bloody.
4. (generally) Of a red colour.
5. (originally) The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
6. The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
7. (generally) A red colour.
8. (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.

Wild and dishevelled, thy luxuriant hair / Falls scattered o'er thy throbbing bosom, fair / As snow incarnadine with morning's ray;— [...]

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

His poem, however, is meetly enough entituled—Christ Crucified! But the Rev. William Ellis Wall is worse than [Pontius] Pilate. That "wretch," as this miserable calls the Roman governor, was careful to wash his hands of all guilt in the transaction; but the Rev. William Ellis Wall holds forth triumphantly his two unhallowed and incarnadine maniples of reeking digits, boasting of the infamous achievement in a most egregious preface.

"Basically I am a very good person." This from the latest serial killer–destined for the chair, they say–who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas.

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

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

The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.

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• more incarnadine
• most incarnadine
• incarnadines
• incarnadining
• incarnadined

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