Envermeil
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red. obsolete, poetic, transitive
"1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss."
Example
More examples"1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss."
Etymology
From en- + vermeil: compare Old French envermeiller.
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