cerise
Example Sentences
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When we found her, she was in a cerise dress ornamented with black lace, two carmine stones in her ears, flanked by a couple of loutish youths in masks and hoodies, taking selfies.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
More important, it’s a cool-looking evergreen with brushy cerise flowers.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2021
At Boden, it’s all tomato-red cardigans and spotty cerise frocks.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018
An untrimmed monobrow might be just add the right soupçon of perversity, whereas shaving off one eyebrow and dying the remaining one cerise, might not.
From Slate • May 23, 2016
While looking at the brilliant frothing colors, cerise, orange, bright blue, red and yellow, she had a feeling that something was stealthily concealed behind those costumes.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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