cramoisy
adjective
cramoisie
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a variation of
cramoisy.
Example Sentences
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Her girdle is of gold and her skirts of the cramoisie.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
"The loose pelisse, with the astrakhan, Giuseppe, and that vest of cramoisie velvet; and if you will just glance at the newspaper, Neville, in the next room, I 'll come to you immediately."
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
O he 's gart build a bonny ship, To sail on the salt sea; The mast was o' the beaten gold, The sails o' cramoisie.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
‘I dinna ken what cramoisie is, ma’sel’,’ he added.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
My silks are stiff wi' patterns o' siller, I've an ermine hood like the hat o' a miller, I've chains o' coral like rowan berries, An' a cramoisie mantle that cam' frae Paris.
From Nets to Catch the Wind by Elinor Wylie
