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vermillion

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ver·mil·ion also ver·mil·lion  (vr-mlyn)
n.
1. A bright red mercuric sulfide used as a pigment.
2. A vivid red to reddish orange. Also called Chinese red, cinnabar.
adj.
Of a vivid red to reddish orange.
tr.v. ver·mil·ioned also ver·mil·lioned, ver·mil·ion·ing also ver·mil·lion·ing, ver·mil·ions also ver·mil·lions
To color or dye (something) in the hue vermilion.
[Middle English vermelion, from Old French vermeillon, from vermeil; see vermeil.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.vermillion - of a vivid red to reddish-orange colorvermillion - of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
Chinese-red, cinnabar, vermilion
chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
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Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
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At the same time the fever, which for an instant abandoned her, returned to give luster to her eyes, color to her cheeks, and vermillion to her lips.
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And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
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