Crossword-Solution: VERMILION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vermilion | n. | A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. |
| Vermilion | n. | Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion. |
| Vermilion | v. t. | To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “VERMILION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | 1 answer |
| Paprika shade. | 1 answer |
| Painter's favorite. | 1 answer |
| Flashy red | 1 answer |
| A brilliant red colour | 1 answer |
| mercuric sulphide | 2 answers |
| MANUSCRIPT illumination pigment | 3 answers |
| Bright hue | 3 answers |
| minium | 4 answers |
| Brilliant red. | 4 answers |
| Vivid red | 7 answers |
| Cinnabar | 7 answers |
| Bright red | 8 answers |
| Alberta town | 9 answers |
| A VARIABLE COLOR AVERAGING A VIVID RED | 11 answers |
| Red shade | 14 answers |
| shade red color | 14 answers |
| red color shade | 14 answers |
| Scarlet | 19 answers |
| Red pigment | 19 answers |
| amaranth relative | 30 answers |
| CRIMSON ___ | 40 answers |
| pigment | 58 answers |
| colour | 78 answers |
| Red | 119 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VERMILION (5)
Barred with streaks of red and yellow, Streaks of blue and bright vermilion, Shone the face of Pau-Puk-Keewis.
The features expressed nothing of monastic austerity, or of ascetic privations; on the contrary, it was a bold bluff countenance, with broad black eyebrows, a well-turned forehead, and cheeks as round and vermilion as those of a trumpeter, from which descended a long and curly black beard.
When he spoke next it was to say, "Well, here we are!" and he turned from the highway and drove up in front of a brown cottage with a vermilion roof, and a group of geraniums clutching the rock that cropped up in the loop formed by the road.
The man was intoxicated, his hat was knocked in, one end of his collar was unfastened and stuck up into his face, his watch-chain dangled from his pocket, and a yellow satin slipper was tied to a button-hole of his vest; his nose was vermilion, one eye was black and blue.
Roger, in his old dressing gown of vermilion flannel, would scuffle down to let her in, picking up the milk bottles and the paper bag of baker's rolls at the same time.
Quotes with VERMILION (3)
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries hung thick underneath, and tore off handful after handful of the sleek, cool-fleshed fruit. Cherries touched his ears and his neck as he stretched forward, their chill fingertips sending a flash down his blood. All shades of red, from a golden vermilion to a rich crimson, glowed and met his eyes under a darkness of leaves.
I sat down in the middle of the garden, where snakes could scarcely approach unseen, and leaned my back against a warm yellow pumpkin. There were some ground-cherry bushes growing along the furrows, full of fruit. I turned back the papery triangular sheaths that protected the berries and ate a few. All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines. The gophers scurried up and down the ploughed ground. There …
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1961–2000).