scarlet
/ˈskɑɹlɪt/ noun B2- A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
- Cloth of a scarlet color.
Plural scarlets
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Scarlet coat and pointed gun,
Her sensitive little face suddenly flushed scarlet and embarrassment sat on her brow.
Rachel, her face scarlet with anger, her lips quivering, and her whole slender form trembling from head to foot.
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.
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