carmine
English
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Carmine ornament on the ceiling of a chapel
Etymology
From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) (from Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija, “produced by worms”), from कृमि (kṛ́mi, “worm, insect”)), plus or with influence from Latin minium.
Noun
carmine (countable and uncountable, plural carmines)
- A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
- 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967,
- Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
- 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967,
- A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XIV, p. 347,
- He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
- c. 1862, Emily Dickinson, in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1960, pp. 225-6,
- I am alive—I guess— / The Branches on my Hand / Are full of Morning Glory— / And at my finger's end— / The Carmine—tingles warm—
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Chapter 5,
- He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.
- 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 4,
- […] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 33,
- The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'
- carmine colour:
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XIV, p. 347,
Derived terms
Translations
purplish-red pigment
purplish-red colour
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Adjective
carmine
- Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
Translations
of the purplish red colour shade carmine
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See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
French
Latin
References
- carmine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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