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Recent Examples of incarnadine
Adjective
The colors are too much for words: imperial purple, incarnadine orange, gold. Ben Huberman, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarnadine
Adjective
  • Celine Haidar dances on the upper deck of a crimson open-top bus.
    Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Saffron’s fragrant, crimson threads have played a key role in many of the world’s great cuisines since ancient times.
    Jane Black, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Come on, babe, and take a look at all the many celebrities who have rouged their knees and rolled their stockings down with the cast of the Broadway show (all 58 of them!) 01 Olivia Holt The actress and singer, 25, made her Broadway debut in Chicago on April 10, 2023, at the Ambassador Theatre.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In ancient Egypt, both men and women were known to rouge their cheeks with a mixture of brownish-red pigment.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
Adjective
  • Geminid meteors are often bright and can display vivid colors like yellow, green, blue or even reddish hues due to their mineral composition.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The full eclipse, when the moon takes on an orangish or reddish color after slipping into the inner part of Earth's shadow, or umbra, should start roughly around 2:26 a.m.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Pop princess, Sabrina Carpenter, is renowned for her prominent pink blushed cheeks.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Her frequent, flirty, faux-bickering visits — more than two dozen over the show’s 11 years — were comic gold, with a nearly blushing David Letterman often barely able to contain his glee.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.
    Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Music’s biggest night returns to Los Angeles on Sunday, and along with it, one of Hollywood’s grandest red carpets.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • His second story collection, Chemical Valley, won the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, received glowing reviews, and was a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award.
    Nicola Davison, Hazlitt, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In some shots, embers can still be seen glowing amid the wreckage.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump won Missouri by 18.5 percentage points and 15.4 percentage points in 2016 and 2020, respectively, solidifying the state’s transformation from perennial bellwether to ruby-red bastion with a grassroots Republican base that is very supportive of the 45th president.
    David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Unlike a lot of sodas out there, Top Note’s made with real ruby-red grapefruit juice, which gives it a vibrant hue.
    Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • Skin flushing generally looks like reddening of the skin.
    Sarah Hudgens, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Other houseplants can also redden if grown at the higher end of their light level preferences, such as certain begonias and bromeliads.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Incarnadine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarnadine. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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