cerise

[ UK /səɹˈiːz/ ]
[ US /sɝˈis/ ]
NOUN
  1. a red the color of ripe cherries
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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How To Use cerise In A Sentence

  • A lot of that has gone now, and hydrangeas come in all sorts of colours and not a few different designs, covering the whole spectrum from a dark navy-blue right through to pure white, on to pink and out the other side in a deep cerise.
  • The camellia family displays pinks in all their many shades, from coral to dark cerise.
  • Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan. Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
  • We were driving around Speyside the other day looking for bonny purple heather and found that the hillsides were blanketed with the dull cerise of willow-herb.
  • There was a fabulous show of colour with pink, fuchsia, cerise and many shades of green standing out.
  • Everyone has a different idea of what is meant by colours such as apricot, cherry, peach, cerise or carmine.
  • Oh -- Cerise at the ceramics place is looking for a packer. GOING OUT
  • Even the fabric used is the traditional mercerised cotton.
  • Their cherry beer will premier at the vernissage for Geneviève Oligny's cherry-praising lantern series Queues de la cerise.
  • I wish I had bought three yards more of that cerise ninon. The Imaginary Marriage
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