• (British) IPA: /ˈvəːmɪl/

vermeil

1. (poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.3:

     And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed […].

   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion (poem), Book I, lines 49-51,^{[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Endymion_(Keats)#Book_I]}

     Many and many a verse I hope to write,

     Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white,

     Hide in deep herbage;

2. (poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming […].

vermeil (plural vermeils)

1. (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.

2. Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
3. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

• vermillion