Pigment, aluminum salt of caminic acid.
A variable color averaging a vivid red.
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
1 Hæmatoxylin and carmine preparations may be mounted either in glycerine or balsam.
2 Then she lowered her glance, with carmine mounting hotly to her brow.
3 Crimson.-Lakeand white, with a little vermilion, shaded with lake and carmine .
4 He is a beautiful bird, white, or rose-colored with long carmine tail-feathers.
5 Livius' face, grotesque already with its hastily smeared carmine , assumed new bewilderment.
6 Some of them were white and some of a brilliant carmine color.
7 White blood oozed out of its opened neck, onto the carmine runner.
8 As any self-respecting vegan knows, carmine food colouring comes from the cochineal insect.
9 On the delicate cheek and lip burned the carmine hue of perfect health.
10 The lower part of the body is of a rich carmine .
11 The sky was full of lilac and bright purple and carmine .
12 Bay.-Lakeand flake white, shaded with carmine ; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
13 There was a flurry of the most brilliant imaginable carmine flame.
14 Before emerging into the school commons, he donned his distinguished carmine - red Headmaster robe.
15 Rose-buds.- Apalewash of carmine , shaded with a stronger wash of the same.
16 Her fair complexion, which the slightest emotion tinged with carmine , was bewitchingly pink.
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