(n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
(a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
(v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(2) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(3) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
(4) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(5) At this point his face really had gone crimson, which it does when he's genuinely cross.
(6) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(7) He then settled into directing a sequence of moderately entertaining, star-powered thrillers such as Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), each with apocalyptic tones and convincing performances (from Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Will Smith respectively).
(8) Crimson Dragon imagines a future in which humans have colonized other planets in the cosmos but fallen foul of an alien epidemic.
(9) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
(10) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
(11) The crimson swirls were painted, like some of the large late paintings by Henri Matisse, with a brush lashed to the end of a long pole.
(12) Now, it's called Crimson Dragon and, while the Microsoft personnel at the booth couldn't confirm whether Kinect was still part of the package, I can confirm one can now play it with a control pad.
(13) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(14) "[The authorities] think that anyone who is independent or not following their views is a spy of the west," Panahi told the Guardian at the time of Crimson Gold's release.
(15) This was the Crimson’s third straight March Madness appearance and last year’s tournament victory, not to mention the NBA success of Jeremy Lin, currently with the Houston Rockets, has established Harvard as one of the more unlikely “basketball schools” in the country.
(16) All eight Salmonella stock cultures which failed to produce a crimson color belonged to rarely isolated serotypes.
(17) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
(18) The color of the mucosa is bright and rich, ranging from crimson the bluish.
(19) BBC2 is also delving into the world of Victorian prostitution with a four-part adaptation by Lucinda Coxon of Michael Faber's novel The Crimson Petal & The White.
(20) According to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, Rakesh described final clubs as sending “an unambiguous message that they are the exclusive preserves of men” and said their exclusionary practices and access to power “undermine [the values] of the larger Harvard College community”.
Kermes
Definition:
(n.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
(n.) A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.