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car⋅mine

  [kahr-min, -mahyn]
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–noun
1. a crimson or purplish-red color.
2. a crimson pigment obtained from cochineal.
Origin:
1705–15; < F carmin (color), carmine (pigment), OF; cf. ML carminium, perh. b. carmesīnum (see crimson ) and minium minium
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car·mine   (kär'mĭn, -mīn')   
n.  

  1. A strong to vivid red.

  2. A crimson pigment derived from cochineal.

adj.  Strong to vivid red.

[French carmin, from Medieval Latin carminium, probably blend of Arabic qirmiz, kermes; see kermes, and Latin minium, cinnabar; see minium.]
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carmine 
1712, from Fr. carmin, from M.L. carminium, from Arabic qirmiz "crimson," from Skt. krimiga "insect-produced," from krmi "worm, insect." The dye comes from crushed cochineal insects. Influenced in L. by minium "red lead."
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Main Entry: car·mine
Pronunciation: 'kär-m&n, -"mIn
Function: noun
: a vivid red lake consisting essentially of an aluminum salt of carminicacid made from cochineal and used as a biological stain and as coloring in foods, drugs, and cosmetics; also : any of various coloring matters (as indigo carmine) other than carmine
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carmine car·mine (kär'mĭn, -mīn')
n.
A crimson pigment derived from cochineal.

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carmine

red or purplish-red pigment obtained from cochineal (q.v.), a red dyestuff extracted from the dried bodies of certain female scale insects native to tropical and subtropical America. Carmine was used extensively for watercolours and fine coach-body colours before the advent of synthetic colouring materials. Since then it has been used only when a natural pigment is required: for pastries, confections, cosmetics, water-soluble drug preparations, and histologic stains

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