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Crimson

//ˈkɹɪmzən// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a deep red colour.

    "Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines."

  2. 2
    Immodest.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by violence or bloodshed wordnet
  2. 2
    of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies wordnet
  3. 3
    (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A deep, slightly bluish red. countable, uncountable

    "To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson."

  2. 2
    a deep and vivid red color wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To become crimson or deep red; to blush. intransitive

    "Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned."

  2. 2
    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame wordnet
  3. 3
    To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. transitive

    "Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand, Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.

Etymology 2

PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.

Etymology 3

PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš. Cognate with Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.

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