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scarlet

[skahr-lit] / ˈskɑr lɪt /




NOUN
carmine
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Then she’s back, her scarlet blazer and marbled scarf bright against the white walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

To fight these “little scarlet cells,” Grandfather seeks inspiration in the “little gray cells” of Hercule Poirot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Billed "scarlet red" with purple pinstripes by the SFA, Scotland football fans have questioned the colour of the so-called "retro" away kit, with many branding it coral, orange or Irn Bru colour.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

In the film, Huppert's countess character returns to life in a scarlet red funeral barge sailing into in the Seegrotte, an underground Viennese lake popular with tourists.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

The crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

As passing days begin to ignite the scarlets and the golds on treetops or twigs, Friday helped show how much their flame owes to the autumn sunshine.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

Many species of the small, tropical bird sport deep black feathers and splashes of eye-catching color — electric yellows, traffic-cone oranges and nearly neon scarlets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021

“His brush is loaded with lots of oil paint in scarlets and pale pinks. You get a sense of the movement, texture and lusciousness of the painted surface.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2016

The scarlets, cobalts and chrome yellows are intense in some passages, depleted in others.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2010

At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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