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Definition of Crimson

1. Adjective. Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

2. Verb. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame. "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

3. Noun. A deep and vivid red color.

4. Adjective. Characterized by violence or bloodshed. "Convulsed with red rage"

5. Adjective. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion. "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

Definition of Crimson

1. n. A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

2. a. Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

3. v. t. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

4. v. t. To become crimson; to blush.

Definition of Crimson

1. Noun. A deep, slightly bluish red. Traditionally the colour of blood. ¹

2. Adjective. having a deep red colour ¹

3. Adjective. having loose morals ¹

4. Verb. to blush ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crimson

1. to make crimson (a red color) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crimson

crimpage crimped crimper crimpers crimpier crimpiest crimping crimple crimpled crimples

crimpling crimpness crimps crimpy crims crimson (current term) crimson clover crimsoned crimsoning crimsonly

crimsonness crimsons crinal crinate crinated crincum-crancum crincum-crancums crine crined crines

Literary usage of Crimson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Lvs. broadly oblong: fls. rich crimson, very large: receptacle with few processes, and a connection between the carpels at their base of similar surface and ..."

2. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"crimson clover is an annual plant, ie, lives but one year like wheat and oats. ... This is an annual clover almost identified with crimson clover. ..."

3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Tul* of the corolla from 1 to 2 inches long ; the limb oblique, but the roundish lobes of the two lips nearly equal, " pink with a deep crimson spot upon ..."

4. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1920)
"A peacock butterfly flaunted Its four great crimson wings, As over the edge of the ... He rolled it up like a crimson cloth, And crammed it into his hold. ..."

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