Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deep to vivid purplish red.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cherry color.
- Cherry-colored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
- adjective Cherry-colored; a
light bright red ; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective 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 a red the color of ripe cherries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Emile Henry 9-inch Provencal pie dish in cerise red
Braise The Dog 2009
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Emile Henry 9-inch Provencal pie dish in cerise red
Puppies 2009
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•She favors oversized shades, including these Oliver Peoples hip Sofiane sunglasses in cerise. $390 at oliverpeoples. com
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup 2010
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Think of a cherry-coloured velvet filling half the picture -- the pale cherry pink known as cerise -- with mauve lights, and behind it pale yellowish draperies and an Aubasson carpet under the lady's feet.
Modern Painting 1892
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel, $18 Very pretty cerise rosé; spicy nose which carries through on the palate.
A.J. Liebling's Favorite Rosé, Perfect for Summer Jay McInerney 2011
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She is beyond beautiful barefoot in a white gown that discloses the lace of a cerise brassiere.
S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment S.X. Rosenstock 2011
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She kept the 60s ceiling cornice white and injected mustard, cerise and aubergine shades into the room with velvet and satin fabrics.
Anatomy of style: Vintage Hannah Booth 2010
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She is beyond beautiful barefoot in a white gown that discloses the lace of a cerise brassiere.
S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment S.X. Rosenstock 2011
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A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen.
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At the first day of the PGA Championship Thursday, Woods's shirt was pink technically, cerise, a color he had worn just three other times in majors.
knitandpurl commented on the word cerise
"The ships were massive, built like pieces of architecture, and seemed almost amphibious, like lesser Venices set in the heart of the greater, when, moored to the banks by gangways decked with crimson satin and Persian carpets, they bore their freight of ladies in cerise brocade and green damask close under the balconies incrusted with multicoloured marble from which other ladies leaned to gaze at them, in gowns with black sleeves slashed with white pearls or bordered with lace."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 653 of the Modern Library paperback edition
May 7, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word cerise
"Finally, before leaving the picture, my eyes came back to the shore, swarming with the everyday Venetian life of the period. I looked at the barber wiping his razor, at the negro humping his barrel, at the Muslims conversing, at the noblemen in wide-sleeved brocade and damask robes and hats of cerise velvet, and suddenly I felt a slight gnawing at my heart."
--The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 877 of the Modern Library paperback edition
February 22, 2010