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poppy red

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Word History and Origins

Origin of poppy red1

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

Her eyes flamed and her cheeks grew hotter and deeper in tint until they were poppy-red.

In the porch a white-headed woman, in a gold-edged blue kerchief and poppy-red skirt, was holding a dame-school.

Later it cleared up entirely, and there was a glorious fairweather sunset of glowing saffron and flaming poppy red.

They were seated cross-legged in a semicircle, and one of them was thumbing tobacco into the bowl of a poppy-red pipe.

The garden of death was a riot of colour, green, crimson, heliotrope and poppy-red.

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