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''crimson'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260727004347-00-⌔
crimson - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
crimson (countable and uncountable, plural crimsons)
- A deep, slightly bluish red.
- ✤ crimson:
- ✤ To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.1
Adjective
crimson (comparative more crimson, superlative most crimson)
- 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
- ✤ Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.3
- Immodest.
Verb
crimson (third-person singular simple present crimsons, present participle crimsoning, simple past and past participle crimsoned)
- (intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
- ✤ Eugenie’s quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned.4
- ✤ Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower?5
- ✤ Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she’d be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.6
- ✤ Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze
- ✤ With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
- (transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
- ✤ Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.7- ✤ Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […]”8
- ✤ […] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]9
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɹɪmzən/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (General American) IPA: /ˈkɹɪmzən/, /ˈkɹɪmsən/
- Rhymes: -ɪmzən, -ɪmsən
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Link to original Footnotes
1904 January 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC: ↩
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168: ↩
1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast: ↩
1841, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XIII, in Night and Morning […], volume, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC: ↩
1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662, ↩
1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC: ↩
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: ↩
1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 153: ↩
1936, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Absalom, Absalom! , New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 138: ↩