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To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, poetic, transitive
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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From en- + vermeil: compare Old French envermeiller.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Russian:
окра́сить багря́нцем
(okrásitʹ bagrjáncem)
— to colour with vermilion (poetic)
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Russian:
подрумя́нить
(podrumjánitʹ)
— to colour with vermilion (poetic)
