carmine









carmine


noun

  1. a crimson or purplish-red color.
  2. a crimson pigment obtained from cochineal.

noun

    1. a vivid red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
    2. (as adjective)carmine paint
  1. a pigment of this colour obtained from cochineal
n.

1712, originally of the dyestuff, from French carmin (12c.), from Medieval Latin carminium, from Arabic qirmiz “crimson” (see kermes). Form influenced in Latin by minium “red lead, cinnabar,” a word said to be of Iberian origin. As an adjective from 1737; as a color name from 1799.

n.

  1. A crimson pigment derived from cochineal.
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