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Definitions
Bright scarlet, vermilion.
Word origin
From Middle English vermayle, from Old French vermeil (“vermilion”), from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye. Doublet of vermicule.
Used in a sentence
“And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].”
“Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;”
“his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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