poppy red

noun

1. poppy ( def 4 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of poppy red¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Her eyes flamed and her cheeks grew hotter and deeper in tint until they were poppy-red.

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In the porch a white-headed woman, in a gold-edged blue kerchief and poppy-red skirt, was holding a dame-school.

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Later it cleared up entirely, and there was a glorious fairweather sunset of glowing saffron and flaming poppy red.

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They were seated cross-legged in a semicircle, and one of them was thumbing tobacco into the bowl of a poppy-red pipe.

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The garden of death was a riot of colour, green, crimson, heliotrope and poppy-red.

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