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vermilion
1[ ver-mil-yuhn ]
noun
- a brilliant scarlet red.
- 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
- of the color vermilion.
verb (used with object)
- to color with or as if with vermilion.
Vermilion
2[ ver-mil-yuhn ]
noun
- a town in N Ohio.
vermilion
/ vəˈmɪljən /
noun
- a bright red to reddish-orange colour
- ( as adjective )
a vermilion car
- mercuric sulphide, esp when used as a bright red pigment; cinnabar
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Origin of vermilion1
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Example Sentences
Myiozetetes similis texensis (Giraud): Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher.
This allowed one to see four similar melting pots, each containing a fluid mass, one vermilion red, others lighter but all ruddy.
But Iftikhar drew from his bosom a crystal vial, in which glowed a liquor red as vermilion.
It contained a single room, walled with hard-finish and profusely etched with figures in vermilion.
Does he think that I will leave to mulatto children the empire of the Vermilion Towers, the glorious inheritance of my ancestors?
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