Definitions
A rich red pigment or color.
Word origin
From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.
Used in a sentence
“He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.”
“I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm,”
“The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deep red color”7 letters
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