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vermilion

[ US /vɝˈmɪɫjən/ ]
[ UK /vɜːmˈɪli‍ən/ ]
VERB
  1. color vermilion
NOUN
  1. a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

How To Use vermilion In A Sentence

  • Blood may be seen running down the crucifix, while tiny specks of vermilion represent drops of blood on Christ's foot and loincloth.
  • The trees in Central Gardens were resplendent with autumn foliage, their colours ranging from vermilion to palest gold. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • The surface of the water was dyed with vermilion.
  • The flames were as expected - carmine, saffron, vermilion.
  • All of the colors swirled together, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, gold, violet, and rose converging on a darkened figure in the center.
  • Down the middle of the scene ran that wonderful river, which is always rippling with the same regular waves; and always bearing onward the same capsizable galleys, with the same vermilion and blue revelers striking lyres on the deck. Hide and Seek
  • The great expanse of the Terris Nebula dominated the western horizon, with its many hues of vermilion, purple and fuchsia against the dark sapphire of the evening sky.
  • Their flanks were blotched with a livid nitrous efflorescence, with flaring sulphur, unhealthy verdure of pitchstone, streaks of arsenical vermilion; their beds -- a frantic maze of boulders. South Wind
  • This is -- Erath is a town of about 2,500 people or so and is in Vermilion Parish, the heart of what they call Cajun country. CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005
  • Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
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