Definition of crimson
: any of several deep purplish reds
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In true '90s fashion, Sauer had her bridesmaids dressed in crimson column gowns made of drapelike material, featuring off-the-shoulder, white lace trim.
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Makeup was minimal and oh so Parisienne: a bare face and swipe of crimson lipstick did the trick for certain scene stealers, while others opted for a set of naturally windblown waves, brought to you by a fresh gust off the Seine.
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What’s an easy way to paint lips in a soft crimson that doesn’t look overdone?
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The annual migrations of Christmas Island crabs, which move in waves of crimson from forest to sea to mate and lay their eggs, also seems to be linked to moonlight’s shifting intensity.
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This game will be televised on the ESPN family of networks — ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU — and has been designated the Crimson Color Out game, with the Cougars urging fans to wear crimson to the stadium.
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There aren’t sufficient adjectives to describe the rich crimson hue that marks Sai’s interior.
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The chicken and ribs represent an urban style that resembles what's sometimes found in soul food restaurants: fall-from-the-bone meat slathered in a sweet crimson sauce.
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Hawk (Michael Horse), now chief deputy, went searching for Glastonbury Grove and saw an aurora of billowing crimson curtains in the trees.
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Origin and Etymology of crimson
Middle English crimisin, from Old Spanish cremesín, from Arabic qirmizī, from qirmiz kermes
crimson
Definition of crimson
: of the color crimson
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Here are seven crimson bras that pass the T-shirt test.
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Clovers (white and crimson) and members of the Aster family (daisies, sunflowers and zinnias) also are good for bees.
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Long a crimson pinata for the AFC West, the Kansas City Chiefs became too good for the San Diego Chargers and many other AFC teams soon after talent man John Dorsey alighted on City of the Plains and partnered with new coach Andy Reid.
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All the carpets had blurred into a sea of crimson knots.
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In the 1300 block of West 49th Street, police scoured the scene of a shooting, placing a half dozen yellow evidence markers near the base of a defunct elevated train track and roping off two blocks with crimson crime scene tape.
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Climatic extremes -- temperatures regularly top 40 C (104 F) in summer, frost is common in winter -- explain why the train journeys are limited to the verdant spring and harvest time when the vines turn amber and crimson.
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A small grill called a shichirin has been swiftly assembled on a crimson tray, with a metal grid laid over what looks like a flowerpot.
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At the World’s Fair, Erickson befriended famed horticulturist Luther Burbank, whose inventions included the crimson Phenomenal berry, a blackberry-raspberry cross similar to a loganberry.
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Origin and Etymology of crimson
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crimson
Definition of crimson
transitive verb
: to make crimson
intransitive verb
: to become crimson; especially : blush
Examples of crimson in a Sentence
he crimsoned the minute he realized the foolishness of what he'd said
Origin and Etymology of crimson
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