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adj
Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
Qualifier: originally
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adj
Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
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adj
Bloodstained, bloody.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, literary
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adj
Of a red colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
Qualifier: generally
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noun
The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
Qualifier: originally
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noun
The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
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noun
A red colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
Qualifier: generally
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verb
To make flesh-coloured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary, transitive
Qualifier: originally
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verb
To make red, especially blood-coloured or crimson; to redden.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, archaic, figuratively, literary, transitive
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verb
make flesh-colored
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
History
The adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnatino (“carnation; flesh colour”), from incarnato (“embodied, incarnate”) + -ino (suffix forming adjectives denoting composition, colour, or other qualities). Incarnato is derived from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarnātus (“having been made incarnate”), the perfect passive participle of incarnō (“to become or make incarnate; to make into flesh”), from in- (suffix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + Latin carō (“flesh, meat; body”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ade + -ine. The noun and verb are derived from the adjective. Adjective senses 2 and 3 (“of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; (figurative) bloostained, bloody”) and noun sense 2 (“blood-red colour of raw flesh”) are due to William Shakespeare’s use of the word as a verb in Macbeth (c. 1606): see the quotation below.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
