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incarnadine

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in⋅car⋅na⋅dine

  [in-kahr-nuh-dahyn, -din, -deen] adjective, noun, verb, -dined, -din⋅ing.
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–adjective
1. blood-red; crimson.
2. flesh-colored; pale pink.
–noun
3. an incarnadine color.
–verb (used with object)
4. to make incarnadine.
Origin:
1585–95; < MF, fem. of incarnadin flesh-colored < It incarnatino, equiv. to incarnat(o) made flesh (see incarnate ) + -ino -ine 1 ; see carnation
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in·car·na·dine   (ĭn-kär'nə-dīn', -dēn', -dĭn)   
adj.  

  1. Of a fleshy pink color.

  2. Blood-red.

tr.v.   in·car·na·dined, in·car·na·din·ing, in·car·na·dines
To make incarnadine, especially to redden.

[French incarnadin, from Italian incarnadino, variant of incarnatino, diminutive of incarnato : in-, in (from Latin; see in-2) + carne, flesh (from Latin carō, carn-; see incarnate).]
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Word Origin & History

incarnadine  (v.)
1591 (adj.) "flesh-colored," from Fr. incarnadine, from It. incarnadino "flesh-color," from L.L. incarnatio (see incarnation). The verb properly would mean "to make flesh colored," but the modern meaning "make red," and the entire survival of the verb, is traceable to "Macbeth" II ii. (1605).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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