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SCARLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
Synonyms:
orange red; scarlet; vermilion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("scarlet" is a kind of...):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Derivation:
scarlet (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
scarlet (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)
Context examples:
Down goes the red cross, and up springs Simon with the scarlet roses!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the stern he saw a young bronzed god in scarlet hip-cloth dipping a flashing paddle.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood which the girl must have lost to leave such a pallor as she had before the transfusion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.
(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)
I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easter—and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Bird life was abundant, especially the wading birds, stork, heron, and ibis gathering in little groups, blue, scarlet, and white, upon every log which jutted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with fish of every shape and color.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I advise you to be off as soon as you can, for scarlet fever is no joke, miss.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Then, Trot,” said my aunt, turning scarlet, “you did wrong, and broke your promise.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
