cerise
Example Sentences
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When we found her, she was in a cerise dress ornamented with black lace, two carmine stones in her ears, flanked by a couple of loutish youths in masks and hoodies, taking selfies.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
More important, it’s a cool-looking evergreen with brushy cerise flowers.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2021
In labour, he looks forlorn in a cerise nightie with a cute animal motif.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018
An untrimmed monobrow might be just add the right soupçon of perversity, whereas shaving off one eyebrow and dying the remaining one cerise, might not.
From Slate • May 23, 2016
Yoshoto, in a beautiful, black and cerise silk kimono, was sweeping die floor with a short-handled broom when M. Yoshoto and I entered the instructors’ room.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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