Crossword-Solution: CARNATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carnation | n. | The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. |
| Carnation | n. | Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. |
| Carnation | n. | A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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greedy person
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Sentences with CARNATION (5)
The Hungarian girl stood like a monument on her flat heels, staring at the pink carnation in Ottenburg’s coat.
Her glance quailed not, her cheek blanched not, for the fear of a fate so instant and so horrible; on the contrary, the thought that she had her fate at her command, and could escape at will from infamy to death, gave a yet deeper colour of carnation to her complexion, and a yet more brilliant fire to her eye.
But tell me,” continued she, turning to Charlotte, “who is this lovely girl? Is she your sister, Mademoiselle?” A blush, deep as the glow of the carnation, suffused the cheeks of Charlotte.
When she arose, he, looking on the ground all the time, saw suddenly sprinkled on the black wet beech-roots many scarlet carnation petals, like splashed drops of blood; and red, small splashes fell from her bosom, streaming down her dress to her feet.
One of them was dragged away and eaten right in the middle of that new carnation bed that I’ve been to such trouble and expense over.
Quotes with CARNATION (3)
You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.
The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I havementioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. The object of theenterprising florist is, as I conceive, to unite size, symmetry, and beautyof colour. It would surely be presumptuous in the most successfulimprover to affirm, that he possessed a carnation in which thesequalities existed in the greatest possible state of perfection. Howeverbeautiful his flower may be, other care, other soil, or other suns, mightproduce one still more beautiful.
Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? What primal night does Man touch with his senses? Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars, through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain: Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).