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incarnadine

[in-kahr-nuh-dahyn, -din, -deen] / ɪnˈkɑr nəˌdaɪn, -dɪn, -ˌdin /




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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

Just inside the entrance, the incarnadine exclamation of a Poiret dress laps a female figure like ripples on a lakeshore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him.

From Time Magazine Archive

When two nations fail to see eye to eye in adjusting the questions of certain fishing rights, why should they incarnadine the seas in seeking for the truth to be applied in settlement?

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Stephen Francis Weston

That mouth has been incarnadined in the deepest red, so it seems to have an autonomous life that’s at odds with the cool, pale skin that surrounds it.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019

The Dunmore, rigged and coursed with smoke like some spirit vessel, cast volleys of flame through its entanglements of cloud, and all its gray was incarnadined with fire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

What more natural than to imagine that the violets and the hyacinths, the roses and the anemones, sprang from their dust, were empurpled or incarnadined by their blood, and contained some portion of their spirit?

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

The eve of Golgotha had come, And Christ lay shrouded in the garden Tomb: Among the olives, Oh, how dumb, How sad the sun incarnadined the gloom!

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

But at such times Day would put the tips of her fingers mysteriously to her incarnadined dumb lips and appear to hearken on the seaward side.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

The hateful stream continued to pump forth from the cut, incarnadining the muddy road, and in despair she took Pilot by the head and began to lead him down the hill towards the valley.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

Oh, more than ever, now I sometimes think no poetry is read Save where some sepultured Caesura bled, Royally incarnadining all the line.

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke


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