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
Usage examples
"And cherry jam?
26.--Vienna Cherry Cake.
But to this both Martha and Cherry objected.
You remember how you used to love cherry jam when you were little?"
And then she told him how she'd forgotten Cherry's seed, and all about it.
"Cherry'll die--Cherry'll die!" she cried, "do somebody help me off with the string!"
"All!" Polly's heart stood still as she thought of Cherry, stark and stiff in the bottom of his cage, if he didn't get it soon.
One method of hardening is to smear the blank with common yellow soap, heat it to a cherry red, and drop endwise into linseed oil.
Some of these are harmless, others are to a certain degree poisonous; as, for example, are the leaves of all the varieties of the plum and cherry tribe, to which the sloe belongs.
It was the Cherry Tree Carol that rose outside, of how sweet Mary, the Queen of Galilee, besought Joseph to pluck the cherries for her Babe, and Joseph refused; and the voices of the singers, that had begun hesitatingly, grew strong and loud and free.