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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cerise
noun
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▪ Her own stand is dominated by a burst of swansdown in shades of pink ranging from cerise to baby blush.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cerise

Cerise \Ce*rise"\, a. [F., a cherry. See Cherry.] Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cerise

shade of red, 1858, from French cerise, from rouge-cerise "cherry-red," from cerise "cherry" (see cherry).

Wiktionary
cerise

a. Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk. n. A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.

WordNet
cerise
  1. adj. having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]

  2. n. a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cherry, cherry red]

Wikipedia
Cerise (comics)

Cerise is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those featuring Excalibur and other books of the X-Men franchise.

Cerisé

Cerisé is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Cerise (color)

Cerise ( or ; ) is a deep to vivid reddish pink.

Cerise (satellite)

Cerise (French for "cherry") was a French military reconnaissance satellite. Its main purpose was to intercept HF radio signals for French intelligence services. With a mass of 50 kg, it was launched by an Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guiana at 17:23 UT, 7 July 1995. Cerise's initial orbital parameters were period 98.1 min, apogee 675 km, perigee 666 km, and inclination 98.0 deg.

It was hit by a catalogued space debris object from an Ariane rocket in 1996, making it the first verified case of an accidental collision between two artificial objects in space.

The collision tore off a 2.8-2.9 metre (9.2-9.5 foot) portion of Cerise's gravity-gradient stabilization boom, which left the satellite severely damaged.

Usage examples of "cerise".

Small nose, nice mouth, lines, but the smiling sort, thin neck, short green cotton wrap, gold bangles and an amethyst ring, thin thighs, reddish knees, long, slender feet in thin-thong sandals, toe-nails as well as finger-nails painted cerise.

Weapons atilt, Cerise argued with a cardmaster in a rose-colored tunic, jabbing a blunt finger.

Or maybe not: Cerise would take Callier apart, or try to, and that, she thought, was not the answer now.

Handing Cerise the invitation, he rolled over, showering hay and chaff that glittered in the dusklight, fished sticky loose cards from inside his shirt.

Cerise had shown her half-dozen unknowns to Byron, and give up the best cards as a fee.

Cerise was off gaming with other cardmasters, using common cards, to sharpen her wits.

Cerise lifted her, barely feeling the effort, and let her go again, saw her slide gracelessly to the bottom of the wall and sit for an instant, long legs sprawling, before the other girl moved to help her up.

Ruth, yet for some reason caused Paulie to do an abrupt about-turn and start to feel a little sorry for this officedog, so out of place here with her painted nails and vivid lips and tailored jacket and pelmet microskirt, all in cerise and taupe, and too-thin thighs encased in charcoal tights.

The tips of the green pines, the crests of the silver spruces, waved about masses of vivid gold aspen trees, and wonderful cerise and flaming red of maples, and crags of yellow rock, covered with the bronze of frostbitten sumac.

The transponder beeped softly, lights flickering briefly in the heads-up display, and Cerise gave a sigh of relief.

Humming to herself, Cerise stepped back, lunged for the middle again, feinted and swept back to jab at her thigh.

Joash drove for Cerise, feinted low, then flicked high to skewer her face.

Cerise feinted right, then back, sidestepped a lunge, then grabbed a shaft and stabbed.

Light flares, momentarily blinding, and Cerise winces at the numbing chill that wraps around her.

She jerked her sword up to slice Cerise, but the frontierswoman easily parried her blade.