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Carmine
"Carmine" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Carmine is a deep red food coloring obtained from an insect called the cochineal.
You tackled Carmine because he was in the way and you ran into him and put your arms around him to keep from falling on your nose.
Make up has often used carmine as a pigment to achieve bright red shades.
My favourite colour is carmine red.
My favourite colour is carmine.
Carmine is my favourite colour.
Carmine red is my favourite colour.
1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm,
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He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.
[…] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]
The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'
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