WordNet
n. any of various acid dyes; used for dying wool scarlet red [syn: alizarin carmine, alizarin red]
Wikipedia
Alizarin crimson may refer to:
- Alizarin crimson (color), a particular shade of red
- Alizarin, a paint pigment
Alizarin crimson is a red color that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel. It is named after the organic dye alizarin, found in the madder plant, and the related synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index).
Usage examples of "alizarin crimson".
Then the colors leaked away one by one, chroma weakening: purple-blue, manganese violet, discord, cobalt blue, doubt, affection, chrome green, chrome yellow, raw sienna, contemplation, alizarin crimson, irony, silver, severity, compassion, cadmium red, white.
There were daubs of yellow and green paint across his jeans, and a freckle of alizarin crimson on the bridge of his nose.
There was alizarin crimson, magenta, and that thorn in the backside of the sinful, sister terra rosa.
And so they were married, at sunset, on the stump of the unfinished pyramid, and the next week he bought a brand new alizarin crimson Ford Fundamental.
In contrast, the painting was rich in garish pigments, gold leaf and alizarin crimson, the human figures it depicted caught in exaggerated, melodramatic atÂ.
Back at the boat, I wrote the number on the cash envelope with a nice vibrant black made of alizarin crimson and hooker's green.
Weed opened the caps of sap green, cadmium yellow and alizarin crimson.