crimson
/ˈkɹɪmzən/ verb C2- To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
- To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
He/she/it crimsons · Past crimsoned · Past participle crimsoned · -ing form crimsoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- crimson
- He/she/it
- crimsons
- Past
- crimsoned
- Past participle
- crimsoned
- -ing form
- crimsoning
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But I excuse it, it is impossible to expect the son of a Girondin to be free from a small spice of the old leaven.” A deep crimson suffused the countenance of Villefort.
Black and crimson, gold and blue;
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
When the commonplace breakfast was over Diana appeared, crossing the white log bridge in the hollow, a gay little figure in her crimson ulster.
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