noun
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A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.
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Cloth of a scarlet color.
verb
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To dye or tinge with scarlet.
adjective
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Of a bright red colour.
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Sinful or whorish.
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a scarlet woman
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(Ireland) Tragic or disappointing.
Examples of scarlet in a Sentence
Natasha blushed scarlet when she heard this.
At the age of twenty-six months scarlet fever left her without sight or hearing.
Then she told me that she had a beautiful story about a little boy which she was sure I should like better than "The Scarlet Letter."
She glanced down at her wrinkled nightclothes and felt a scarlet wave surge up her neck.
Among these are several beautiful species such as the Japanese Geronticus nippon, the Lophotibis cristata of Madagascar, and the scarlet ibis, 5 Eudocimus ruber, of America.
At the coronation of George III., one of the king's grooms appeared "in a scarlet dress, holding a perfuming pan, burning perfumes, as at previous coronations."
His face turned scarlet and he looked away, running a hand through his hair.
Gladys Turnbull, wrapped in a scarlet robe, stuck her head in the room.
Inferior to this is " cudbear," derived from Lecanora tartarea, which was formerly very extensively employed by the peasantry of north Europe for giving a scarlet or purple colour to woollen cloths.
His face turned scarlet and he balled his hands into fists.
One day my teacher found me in a corner of the library poring over the pages of "The Scarlet Letter."
Nearly all the leaves had fallen off the trees except for the huge scarlet oak in the back yard.
The manakins are nearly all birds of gay appearance, generally exhibiting rich tints of blue, crimson, scarlet, orange or yellow in combination with chestnut, deep black, black and white, or olive green; and among their most obvious characteristics are their short bill and feeble feet, of which the outer toe is united to the middle toe for a good part of its length.
When barely two years old she was deprived of sight, smell and hearing, by an attack of scarlet fever.
The fruit is a berry - the scarlet berries of the cuckoo-pint are familiar objects in the hedges in late summer.
The double poinsettia, again, owes its so-called double condition merely to the increased number of its scarlet involucral leaves, which are not parts of the flower at all.
In the plains below, the swards are gay with the scarlet and white verbena and other brilliant wild flowers.
They include, however, the snipe and military starling, which on account of its scarlet breast is locally known as the robin.
Masderallia is common in cultivation and has often brilliant scarlet, crimson or orange flowers.
Cotton of excellent quality is grown in the neighbourhood, and the place is celebrated for its scarlet dyes.
Though part of the plumage in many sun-birds gleams with metallic lustre, they owe much of their beauty to feathers which are not lustrous, though almost as vivid,' and the most wonderful combination of the brightest colours - scarlet, purple, blue, green and yellow - is often seen in one and the same bird.
The Lombard sect went farther in (3) and (4), holding that no one in mortal sin could consecrate the sacrament, and that the Roman Church was the scarlet woman of the Apocalypse, whose precepts ought not to be obeyed, especially those appointing fast-days.
A common creeper is one bearing a small scarlet cucumber, and a species of watermelon called tsoma is also abundant.
The corolla is tubular with a spreading limb, and varies widely in colour, being white, yellow, orange, crimson, scarlet, blue or purple.
Aloes are common; in part of the midland zone they form when in bloom with abundance of orange and scarlet flowers a most picturesque sight.
The fauna includes buffaloes, a marsupial cuscus, some bats, the beautiful scarlet lory, rare varieties of the ground-thrush, honey-eater and oriole.
In scarlet fever, the skin appears red all over.
It comes in a wide range of colors such as Black, White, Gray, Royal, Columbia, Kansas Blue, Navy, Cardinal, Scarlet, Maroon, Gold, Dark Green, Kelly Green, Burnt Orange and Purple.
This youth jersey comes in sizes extra small through extra large and in color such as black, light blue, pink, scarlet, purple, gold, hunter and white.
A young boy of six, I was recovering from scarlet fever.
There were long scarlet ribbons of lava pouring down the sides like blood from a major wound.
I feel my cheeks blushing scarlet; did he think I was looking at myself?
It was the name of a classic Western starring Robert Mitchum and the title of a book about the swashbuckling hero "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy.
A flock of Scarlet Macaws was screaming by overhead while we working some nasty little flycatcher.
At the top of the hill was an old, ivy-clad church with baskets of scarlet geraniums on the window ledges.
The days of General Admission are ' scarlet ' days, and Doctors in the different Faculties are asked to wear their festal gowns.
There are flower borders filled with colorful shrubs, gardenia and scarlet hibiscus.
On board diving which i was the entrance of scarlet ibis in.
Or try the Aucuba japonica or spotted laurel, which also has beautiful dark green leaves and scarlet berries through the winter months.
Along the way, we were greeted by 5 scarlet macaws showing off their colors in the trees on the banks.
They carry generous clusters of gleaming flowers, with sleek scarlet sepals flaring to reveal a slim skirt of purple petals surrounding coral stamens.
To the SOE, the Lysander was known as the ' scarlet pimpernel of the air ' .
Although dress regulations states black feather plume with ring of scarlet feathers, most pictures show scarlet feathers with black ring.
Rattle, rattle rattle, scattering scarlet poppy seeds.
The Twin Urban Detour is a three wheeler pushchair, I had it in scarlet, which is a bright red!
On the high bench at the top we can see the judge in his long wig and scarlet robes.
Built in the form of a giant bird the device was deep scarlet in color, with ' feathers ' picked out in gold.
She walked in to everyone's laughter and mirth, when, quite suddenly, the top leaves on every stem turned scarlet.
Dress will be gown and hood, with doctors wearing scarlet.
The uniform was that of the 60th Rifles, rifle green faced scarlet.