incarnadine
Americanadjective
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blood-red; crimson.
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flesh-colored; pale pink.
noun
verb (used with object)
verb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of incarnadine
1585–95; < Middle French, feminine of incarnadin flesh-colored < Italian incarnatino, equivalent to incarnat ( o ) made flesh ( incarnate ) + -ino -ine 1; carnation
Example Sentences
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The result bore an uncanny resemblance to ham: the surface dark, the interior incarnadine, the flesh easy to cut into meaty slices.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2020
The word "incarnadine", for example is much touted as a Shakespeare coinage, but did it really catch on?
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010
Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just inside the entrance, the incarnadine exclamation of a Poiret dress laps a female figure like ripples on a lakeshore.
From Time Magazine Archive
The primrose of the sky changed to the saffron red of a mountain-gipsy's handkerchief, crimsoned to a deep welter of incarnadine, the "flurry" of the dying day.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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