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The simile from Canfield’s Sex Education describes a face turned red with embarrassment.
The objects being compared are Vermont barns.
Similes linking the color red with blood abound throughout literature as well as everyday speech.
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| Noun | 1. | red - red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of bloodsanguine - a blood-red color chrome red - a red pigment used in paints; basic lead chromate alizarine red, Turkey red - a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye dark red - a red color that reflects little light purplish red, purplish-red - a red with a tinge of purple orange red, scarlet, vermilion - a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge |
| 2. | Red - a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through LouisianaLouisiana, Pelican State, LA - a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico | |
| 3. | red - emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionariesradical - a person who has radical ideas or opinions | |
| 4. | red - the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" paper loss - an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost squeeze - a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits" amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money - a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" | |
| Adj. | 1. | red - of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue |
| 2. | red - characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode bloody - having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight" | |
| 3. | red - (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" |