incarnadine
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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
Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just inside the entrance, the incarnadine exclamation of a Poiret dress laps a female figure like ripples on a lakeshore.
From Time Magazine Archive
A labour-saving language has no business with such words as "incarnadine" or "multitudinous."
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
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 ruby my vow desires For your beauty smiling kind Is surely incarnadined By a limpid mirror's fires.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
The sun shone again through the tall window, blood-red as before; grass and sky were as richly incarnadined.
From The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing incarnadine
Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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