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scarlet

noun
/ˈskɑɹlɪt/US/ˈskɑːlɪt/UK/ˈskɐːlət/

Etymology

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlātum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively; compare especially the dialectal form سِقِرْلَاط (siqirlāṭ). The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye. The Arabic word may itself be derived from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτον (sigillâton), from Latin sigillātum (“a type of fabric”, literally “sealed; sealing”) .

  1. derived from sigillātus
  2. derived from σιγιλλᾶτον
  3. derived from سِقِلَّات
  4. derived from سقرلات
  5. derived from scarlātum — “scarlet cloth”
  6. derived from escarlate
  7. inherited from scarlet

Definitions

  1. A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.

    • Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.

  2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

    • All her household are clothed with scarlet.

  3. Of a bright red colour.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Sinful or whorish.

      • a scarlet woman

    2. Blushing

      Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.

      • He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.

    3. To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet.

      • Forbeare; the aſhy paleneſſe of my cheeke / Is ſcarletted in ruddy flakes of vvrath: […]

    4. A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun…

      A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.

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Derived

Scarlet, scarletberry, scarleteer, scarletish, scarlet-like, scarletly, scarletness, scarletwork, scarlety, Gobelin scarlet, iodine scarlet, scarlet admiral, scarlet banana, scarlet bean, scarlet-bodied wasp moth, scarlet-browed tanager, scarlet buglar, scarlet bugler, scarlet-collar, scarlet eggplant, scarlet fever, scarlet geranium, scarlet hat, scarlet honeycreeper, scarlet honeyeater, scarlet ibis, scarlet letter, scarlet lightning, scarlet lily beetle, scarlet macaw, scarlet milkweed, scarlet minivet, scarlet myzomela, scarlet oak, scarlet percher, scarlet pimpernel, scarlet queening, scarlet rosefinch, scarlet runner, scarlet shiner · +4 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA