Garnet vs Scarlet - What's the difference?
garnet | scarlet |
(mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
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A dark red.
Of a dark red colour.
A bright red, slightly orange colour.
Cloth of a scarlet color.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 21
Of a bright 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.
Sinful or whorish.
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To dye or tinge with scarlet.
* Ford
As a noun garnet
is (mineral) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives or garnet can be (nautical) a tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.As an adjective garnet
is of a dark red colour.As a proper noun scarlet is
, a modern variant of scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.garnet
English
(wikipedia garnet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .Noun
(en noun)- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
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Derived terms
* demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAGSee also
(mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvaroviteAdjective
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*Etymology 2
Anagrams
* argent ----scarlet
English
Noun
(en noun)- All her household are clothed with scarlet .
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* scarlatina * scarlet-collar * scarlet fever * scarlet hat * scarlet ibis * scarlet letter * scarlet pimpernel * scarlet runner * scarlet tanager * scarlet womanSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.