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VERMILLION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vermillion mean?
• VERMILLION (adjective)
The adjective VERMILLION has 1 sense:
1. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
Familiarity information: VERMILLION used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
Synonyms:
Chinese-red; cinnabar; vermilion; vermillion
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples
And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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