Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: carmine
IPA transcription: [k'ɑɹm,aɪn]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
    Meaning: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cardinal, carmine
    Meaning: a variable color averaging a vivid red
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: carmine
    Meaning: color carmine
Usage examples
  • To dye a fine delicate pink, use a carmine saucer--the directions for dyeing come with the saucers.
  • There are fine ladies among them who adorn their legs with a number of pink bracelets and their back with carmine arabesques.
  • They shed shavings, sawdust and lampblack at every step, and from their clothes and hands and faces dripped the carmine paint.
  • For a moment, biting her carmine lip, she deplored inwardly the tyranny of the rigid principles governing the sale of her influence in high places.
  • She studied the delicate bloom of their cheeks, and wondered what mysterious proportions of white, ochre, and carmine she would have to use to obtain it.
  • But of all these things the young man thought nothing and saw nothing; for at the end of the marble avenue there arose a palace, the like of which was not in the four quarters of the earth--a palace of marble and gold and carmine and ultramarine--rising into the purple starry sky, and shining in the moonlight like a vision of Paradise.