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- Dictionaryvermilion/vəˈmɪlɪən/
noun
- 1. a brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulphide (cinnabar).
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adjective. uk / vəˈmɪl.jən / us / vɚˈmɪl.jən / having a bright red colour: She was wearing a vermilion skirt and yellow jacket. The wood was finished in vermilion lacquer. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of vermilion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
noun. ver· mil· ion vər-ˈmil-yən. variants or less commonly vermillion. 1. : a vivid reddish orange. 2. : a bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide. broadly : any of various red pigments. Examples of vermilion in a Sentence.
Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness).
adjective. us / vɚˈmɪl.jən / uk / vəˈmɪl.jən / having a bright red color: She was wearing a vermilion skirt and yellow jacket. The wood was finished in vermilion lacquer. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of vermilion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Vermilion is a deep, brilliant shade of red. You could describe your grandfather's reddish-orange scarf as vermilion.
noun. 1. a. bright-red mercuric sulfide, used as a pigment. b. any of several other red pigments resembling this. 2. a bright red or scarlet.
a bright-red, water-insoluble pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide, once obtained from cinnabar, now usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur.
n. 1. A vivid red to reddish orange. Also called Chinese red, cinnabar. 2. See mercuric sulfide. adj. Of a vivid red to reddish orange. tr.v. ver·mil·ioned, ver·mil·ion·ing, ver·mil·ions also ver·mil·lioned or ver·mil·lion·ing or ver·mil·lions. To color or dye (something) in the hue vermilion.
A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women. Wiktionary. Synonyms: orange-red. scarlet. adjective. Of a vivid red to reddish orange. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Of the color vermilion. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: chinese-red.
noun. 1. a brilliant scarlet red. 2. a bright-red, water-insoluble pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide, once obtained from cinnabar, now usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur.
