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ver⋅mil⋅ion

  [ver-mil-yuhn]
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–noun
1. a brilliant scarlet red.
2. a bright-red, water-insoluble pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide, once obtained from cinnabar, now usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur.
–adjective
3. of the color vermilion.
–verb (used with object)
4. to color with or as if with vermilion.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME vermilioun, vermillon < AF, OF verm(e)illon, equiv. to vermeil vermeil + -on n. suffix

Ver⋅mil⋅ion

  [ver-mil-yuhn]
–noun
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ver·mil·ion also ver·mil·lion   (vər-mĭl'yən)   
n.  
  1. A bright red mercuric sulfide used as a pigment.
  2. A vivid red to reddish orange. Also called Chinese red, cinnabar.
adj.  Of a vivid red to reddish orange.
tr.v.   ver·mil·ioned also ver·mil·lioned, ver·mil·ion·ing also ver·mil·lion·ing, ver·mil·ions also ver·mil·lions
To color or dye (something) in the hue vermilion.

[Middle English vermelion, from Old French vermeillon, from vermeil; see vermeil.]
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Vermilion

Ver*mil"ion\, n. [F. vermillon. See Vermeil.]

1. (Chem.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.

Note: The kermes insect has long been used for dyeing red or scarlet. It was formerly known as the worm dye, vermiculus, or vermiculum, and the cloth was called vermiculatia. Hence came the French vermeil for any red dye, and hence the modern name vermilion, although the substance it denotes is very different from the kermes, being a compound of mercury and sulphur. --R. Hunt.

2. Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.

Vermilion

Ver*mil"ion\, v. t. To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
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Language Translation for : vermilion
Spanish: bermellón,
German: das Zinnoberrot, zinnoberrot,
Japanese: 朱色(の)
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vermilion 
1296, "cinnabar, red dye," from O.Fr. vermeillon, from vermeil "bright-red," from L.L. vermiculus "a little worm," specifically, the cochineal insect from which crimson dyes were obtained (see cochineal), in classical L., "larva of an insect, grub, maggot," dim. of vermis "worm" (see worm).
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