What is "crimsons"

Usage examples of "crimsons".

Mingled with disk and star were tiny crosses gleaming with sullen, deep crimsons and smoky orange.

Toward its top I glimpsed a huge square of flaring crimsons and bright topaz.

In front of them a great rose-window of stained glass, splendid with rich purples and crimsons, shone through a subdued and reverent gloom.

The stained glass - especially that which surmounted the altar - contained those rich satisfying purples and deep deep crimsons which only go with age.

He throws his spear, but it is already too late, and he feels the beast slice his side with razor-sharp tusks, feels his life slip away into the mud: and he realizes he has fallen face down into the water, which crimsons in thick swirls of suffocating blood.

He coughed, then recited, in a basso profundo, "Brave the battling blade, flashes the furious fire, steel sword sheathed in hated heart, crimsons the .

In its new false colors the Sunscape became suffused with deep crimsons and purples.

She half remembered an extensive patchwork of vivid green, flecked with darker colors: crimsons, purples, and blues deep enough to be almost black—but nothing distinct.