Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of a fleshy pink color.
- adjective Blood-red.
- transitive verb To make incarnadine, especially to redden.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a carnation-color; pale-red.
- To dye red or carnation; tinge with the color of flesh.
- noun A color ranging from flesh-color to blood-red.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color.
- transitive verb To dye red or crimson.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the blood red colour of raw flesh.
- adjective Of a general red colour
- noun The blood red colour of raw flesh.
- noun Red in general
- verb To cause to be the blood-red colour of raw flesh.
- verb To cause to be red or
crimson .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make flesh-colored
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But then I get long explanations about how Shx uses "incarnadine" instead of "red" because he's a really, really good writer.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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I've had some success in getting them past it when it's a matter of language by saying "English has a huge vocabulary, and the author/poet/whatever could have chosen another word instead of this one - so don't just tell me that Shakespeare uses 'incarnadine' to mean 'red' here, but tell me why 'incarnadine' rather than 'red' makes a difference."
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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A later attempt at Paris to "incarnadine" the neighborhood of the Champs de Mars, and "round up" a number of boulevardiers, met with a more disastrous result, -- the gleam of steel from mounted gendarmes, and a mandate to his employers.
Tales of Trail and Town Bret Harte 1869
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"incarnadine", for example is much touted as a Shakespeare coinage, but did it really catch on?
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In one routine, describing his “ludicrously alpha” surfing instructor for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall shoot, he exclaims, “The sea were incarnadine wiv his testosterone!”
Brit Wit 2009
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In one routine, describing his “ludicrously alpha” surfing instructor for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall shoot, he exclaims, “The sea were incarnadine wiv his testosterone!”
Brit Wit 2009
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No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
George Heymont: Eliot Spitzer's Perfect Storm of High Finance, Hubris, Hostility, and Hookers George Heymont 2010
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No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
George Heymont: Eliot Spitzer's Perfect Storm of High Finance, Hubris, Hostility, and Hookers George Heymont 2010
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No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
George Heymont: Eliot Spitzer's Perfect Storm of High Finance, Hubris, Hostility, and Hookers George Heymont 2010
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No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.
George Heymont: Eliot Spitzer's Perfect Storm of High Finance, Hubris, Hostility, and Hookers George Heymont 2010
seanahan commented on the word incarnadine
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
December 2, 2006
innanja commented on the word incarnadine
Virginia Woolf talks about "incarnadine" in her eulology to words: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/woolfv1.shtml
December 9, 2007
myth commented on the word incarnadine
This definition is a little off. Per the first commenter, the word is mostly used to describe a bloodred color due to the Shakespeare quote even though prior to Shakespeare it was known to be a softer pink.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-inc2.htm
February 1, 2009
reesetee commented on the word incarnadine
Myth, if you look around, you'll see that many of those definitions, pulled from WordNet, are a little off. That's why we affectionately (and sometimes not so affectionately) call it WeirdNet.
February 2, 2009
mollusque commented on the word incarnadine
He kept furtively directing at me the electric torch through his incarnadined fingers to see if I was not about to faint.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins!
June 7, 2009
sweetzingiber commented on the word incarnadine
blood-red in color
July 31, 2009