Vermeil

/ˈvɜː.meɪl/ · adjective

Meaning

(poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion..

Definitions by Sense

1. (poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.
2. (poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
3. (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.
4. Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
5. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

Example Sentences

And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].

Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;

his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].

a lip as vermeil as her own. (IV, xxx)

The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.

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Word Forms

• more vermeil
• most vermeil
• vermile
• vermeils

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