(a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises.
(2) An underwater ballet, performed in a corporation swimming pool, or two elegant ladies wearing cerise onions for ball gowns.
(3) Jackie – a vision in flammable cerise buffoonwear – is the subject of Storyville: The Queen Of Versailles ( Monday, 10pm, BBC4 ), an award-winning look at what happens when the Florida housewife and her self-made billionaire husband David attempt to build "the biggest and best house in America!"
(4) Galbraith drew attention to the paradox of private affluence amid public squalor, citing the family that takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked car out for a drive, passes through cities that are badly paved and made hideous by litter and blighted buildings, and then picnics on exquisitely packaged food by a polluted stream.
(5) She refuses to wear a headscarf and when we meet, at a beachside restaurant in Gaza City, is wearing fitted trousers and a cerise blouse.
(6) Dulwich exhibits Hero and Leandro , painted like those landscape panels in 1985 – their dribbles and fingerworking here orchestrated into a deliquescent collapse of mist-greys and cerise.
(7) When words of defiance fail, sometimes a jumbo pair of cerise bloomers says it all.
(8) You'd expect a chihuahua to poke out of a cerise bum bag.
Ceruse
Definition:
(n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.