Cerise vs Crimson - What's the difference?
cerise | crimson |
A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
A deep, slightly bluish red.
* (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having a deep red colour.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
*1950 , (Mervyn Peake),
*:Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
Having loose morals.
to blush
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between cerise and crimson
is that cerise is a deep, bright red colour tinted with pink while crimson is a deep, slightly bluish red.As adjectives the difference between cerise and crimson
is that cerise is cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk while crimson is having a deep red colour.As a verb crimson is
to blush.cerise
English
(wikipedia cerise)Noun
(-)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* ----crimson
English
(wikipedia crimson)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia)- To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson .
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* crimson lakeVerb
(en verb)- Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.
- Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.
