Definizione monolingua

vermilion

vermilion (plural vermilions)

1. A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide.
2. A vivid red or slightly orange colour.

   vermilion colour:

   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 3

     I, struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streakd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermilion

3. A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
4. A red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face.

vermilion (comparative more vermilion, superlative most vermilion)

1. Having a brilliant red colour.
2. Having the color of the vermilion dye.

Definizione dizionario vermilion

vermiglio

arancio sanguigno

cinabro

vermiglione

Altri significati:

pigment

Having a brilliant red colour.

A vivid red or slightly orange colour.

A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide.

vermilion colour:

having a brilliant red colour

A red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face.

A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.

colour

dye

Having the color of the vermilion dye.

having the color of vermilion dye