ver|mil|ion

ver|mil|ion
ver|mil|ion «vuhr MIHL yuhn», noun, adjective, verb.
–n.
1. a bright red.
2. a) a bright-red coloring matter consisting of mercuric sulfide; cinnabar. b) any one of various other bright-red coloring matters.
–adj.
bright-red; scarlet: »

The black strokes of writing thereon looked like the twigs of a winter hedge against a vermilion sunset (Thomas Hardy).

–v.t.
to color or paint with vermilion: »

Figurative. A blush vermilioned her face.

╂[Middle English vermeylion, vermilloun < vermeil Old French; see etym. under vermeil (Cf. ↑vermeil)]

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