What does scarlet mean?
Scarlet means A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange..
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/ˈskɑɹlɪt/ · noun
A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange..
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
All her household are clothed with scarlet.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
a scarlet woman
He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.
Forbeare; the aſhy paleneſſe of my cheeke / Is ſcarletted in ruddy flakes of vvrath: […]
Use scarlet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scarlet means A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange..
Common synonyms include scarlet red, chromatic, carmine, ruddy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
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