Scarlet vs X - What's the difference?
scarlet | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a proper noun scarlet
is , a modern variant of scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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.
