incarnadine
Example Sentences
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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
When Lady Macbeth found that the water in the basin would not wash off the red spots, but would "the multitudinous seas incarnadine," why did not Macbeth and his wife forgive each other?
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight
Vocabulary lists containing incarnadine
Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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