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crimson

[krim-zuhn, -suhn] / ˈkrɪm zən, -sən /


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"They even have make-up artists to help you," she said as she mounted a crimson superbike, wrapped her arms around her driver and sped off with a videographer in pursuit.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Brilliant blue and white stars sparkle against glowing crimson clouds of hydrogen gas, creating a breathtaking scene that resembles fireworks shining through drifting smoke.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

So back to this Thursday, and I am surrounded by other happy honorees in a bubbling brew of crimson robes and black caps.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

But by now in early January those crimson leaves are probably already looking crumpled.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

The clouds parted, and the lightning’s true source revealed itself—not lightning at all, no, but fireworks bursting in arterial gushes of blue and crimson.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Sunsets will seem to happen in slow motion, the full pallet of pinks and crimsons and rouge-reds lingering for an hour.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2014

Decked in calm crimsons, blues and yellows, like their 13th Century counterparts, Mr. Saint's saints & sinners glowed from the glass with equal clarity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans, made a gorgeous frame for the principal action.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lines were angularly primitive, the colors warm turquoise blues, smoldering crimsons, emerald greens, rich topaz yellows.

From Time Magazine Archive

The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust.

From Time Magazine Archive

Junior smirked, crimsoned under his tan, and refused to say.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Her face crimsoned as she came toward her.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

William, child though he was, crimsoned to the roots of his brown hair.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

His wife crimsoned and looked across the glinting sea.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

“Truly a beautiful sight,” the periodical opined, “in direct contrast with the expanse of white, whether appearing in thinly scattered patches, or crimsoning the hills and plains for miles around.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 21, 2023

“For me, uncle?” she cried, crimsoning to the parting of her hair.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn

Lilian wondered, with a crimsoning of her face, whether she had betrayed the relief she certainly experienced on discovering that his injuries were not serious; and then she closed the window with somewhat unnecessary violence.

From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

"Where the deuce did you pick up that girl, Marc?" asked he, as we stood looking at the sun setting over the woods of Essellau, and crimsoning the western clouds.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

But the maid was crimsoning uncomfortably, for at this moment there arose the sound of some one playing the piano in the music room near by.

From The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook




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