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garnet | scarlet |

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)
  • (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:
    • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
  • A dark red.
    • Derived terms
    * demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAG
    See also
    (mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvarovite

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of a dark red colour.
    • See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * argent ----

    scarlet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bright red, slightly orange colour.
  • Cloth of a scarlet color.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 21
    • All her household are clothed with scarlet .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a bright red colour.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * scarlatina * scarlet-collar * scarlet fever * scarlet hat * scarlet ibis * scarlet letter * scarlet pimpernel * scarlet runner * scarlet tanager * scarlet woman

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dye or tinge with scarlet.
  • * Ford
    • The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

    Anagrams

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