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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
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Ver⋅mil⋅ion

  [ver-mil-yuhn]
–noun
a town in N Ohio. 11,012.
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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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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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