vermilion
IPA: vɝmˈɪɫjʌn
noun
- A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
- A bright orange-red colour.
- A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
- The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.
- (obsolete) The kermes or cochineal insect.
- (obsolete) The cochineal dye made from this insect.
verb
- (transitive) To color or paint vermilion.
adjective
- Having a brilliant red colour.
- Having the color of the vermilion dye.
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Examples of "vermilion" in Sentences
- Vermilion remains privately owned.
- Vermilion was used as a divisional point.
- Their team colors are vermilion and white.
- It is covered by red clothes and vermilion.
- Is vermilion a red pigment, or an orange one.
- The specific epithet refers to the vermilion flowers.
- The veins are painted in vermilion into the wet scumble.
- At Vermilion, a reservoir is created by a dam on the river.
- The bones were then dipped in vermilion and placed in the dolmen.
- One way to achieve advancement of the vermilion is the gull wing lift.
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