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vermeil

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈvɜː.meɪl/
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/ˈvɜː.meɪl/ · /ˈvɝ.mɪl/(US) · /ˈvɝ.meɪl/(US)

Definition of vermeil

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, poetic)Bright scarlet, vermilion.
    “And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].”
    “Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;”
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adj

  1. (archaic, poetic)Bright scarlet, vermilion.
    “And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].”
    “Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;”
  2. (archaic, poetic)Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
    “his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].”
    “a lip as vermeil as her own. (IV, xxx)”

noun

  1. (poetic)Vermilion; bright red.
    “The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.”
  2. Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
  3. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis Proto-Italic *wormis Latin vermis Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Latin vermiculus Vulgar Latin *vermiclus Old French vermeilbor. Middle English vermayle English vermeil From Middle English vermayle, from…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis Proto-Italic *wormis Latin vermis Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Latin vermiculus Vulgar Latin *vermiclus Old French vermeilbor. Middle English vermayle English vermeil From Middle English vermayle, from Old French vermeil (“vermilion”), from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye. Doublet of vermicule.

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