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noun

Carmine n.

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.

(Chem.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; hence called also carminic acid.

Carmine red (Chem.), a coloring matter obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance, and probably allied to the phthaleïns.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carmine" Quotes from Famous Books

... visiting insects. In many of the red or reddish varieties this one yellow patch remains, while the general yellow hue fails. In the variety called "Brilliant" the yellow ground makes the red color more shiny, and if it is absent the pure carmine tinge predominates. ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

... Carmine Pastorali, prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of ...

— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin

... However, there was the different look that irritated many of the other girls, interfered with her business and made her feel a hypocrite. She heard so much about the paleness of her lips that she decided to end that comment by using paint—the durable kind Ida had recommended. When her lips flamed carmine, a strange and striking effect resulted. The sad sweet pensiveness of her eyes—the pallor of her clear skin—then, that splash of bright red, artificial, bold, defiant—the contrast of the combination seemed somehow ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... natural thing would be a woman in the corner of an open victoria—after seeing scores of them all alike, you feel as though you could do it in a minute: one slashing line for the hat, two coal-black holes, and a dash of carmine in a patch of marble white, and a pair of silk-covered ankles crossed and pointed in a way that seems Parisian enough after one has become used to the curious boxes in which women enclose their feet in Berlin. Coming ...

— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

... the vivid blaze Of rich tints before it spread— Gay orange and gold, with shades untold Of glowing carmine and red— It can turn 'mid the scene to the sombre green Of the fir, the hemlock, the pine, Ever-keeping their hue, and their freshness, too, ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

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