What is the difference between scarlet and crimson?
scarlet | crimson |
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
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 scarlet and crimson
is that scarlet is a bright red, slightly orange colour while crimson is a deep, slightly bluish red.As adjectives the difference between scarlet and crimson
is that scarlet is of a bright red colour while crimson is having a deep red colour.As verbs the difference between scarlet and crimson
is that scarlet is to dye or tinge with scarlet while crimson is to blush.As a proper noun Scarlet
is {{given name|female|from=English}}, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.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.
Anagrams
* *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.