"Cramoisy" Quotes from Famous Books
... amid the starry sky, * Robing in tresses blackest ink outvie. The morning-breezes give her boughs fair drink, * And like a branch she sways with supple ply: She smiles in passing us. O thou that art * Fairest in yellow robed, or cramoisie, Thou playest with my wit in love, as though * Sparrow in hand ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... set mine old legs a-dancing at thy wedding, though I promise not a galliardo [a dance wherein high leaps were taken, requiring great agility]. My word on't, it shall be a jovial sight! Hast seen the tailor touching thine attire? Purple satin, or cramoisie?" [Crimson velvet.] ... — Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt |