scarlet
see also: Scarlet
Pronunciation Noun
Scarlet
Proper noun
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see also: Scarlet
Pronunciation Noun
scarlet (plural scarlets)
- A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.
- Cloth of a scarlet color.
- Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 21
- All her household are clothed with scarlet.
- Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 21
- French: écarlate
- German: Scharlachrot, Scharlach
- Italian: scarlatto
- Portuguese: escarlate
- Russian: а́лый
- Spanish: escarlata
scarlet
- Of a bright red colour.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- Sinful or whorish.
- a scarlet woman
- (Ireland) Tragic or disappointing.
- French: écarlate
- German: scharlachrot
- Portuguese: escarlate
- Russian: а́лый
- Spanish: escarlata
scarlet (scarlets, present participle scarleting; past and past participle scarleted)
Scarlet
Proper noun
- A female given name, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.
- 1979 Joseph Hansen, Skinflick, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ISBN 0030576415, page 96:
- It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.
- 1979 Joseph Hansen, Skinflick, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ISBN 0030576415, page 96:
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