crimson
nounEtymology
PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.
Definitions
A deep, slightly bluish red.
- To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.
Having a deep red colour.
- Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
Immodest.
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To become crimson or deep red
To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
- Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned.
To dye with crimson or deep red
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
- Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.
- Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […]”
- […] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at crimson. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at crimson. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at crimson
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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