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incarnadine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incarnadine \In*car"na*dine\, v. t. To dye red or crimson.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
--Shak.
Incarnadine \In*car"na*dine\, a. [F. incarnadin, It.
incarnatino; L. pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. Cf.
Carnation, Incarnate.]
Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.]
--Lovelace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s (adj.) "flesh-colored," from French incarnadine, from dialectal Italian incarnadino "flesh-color," from Late Latin incarnatio (see incarnation). The verb properly would mean "to make flesh colored," but the modern meaning "make red," and the entire survival of the verb, is traceable to "Macbeth" II ii. (1605). Its direct root might be the noun incarnadine "blood-red; flesh-color," though this is not attested until 1620s.
Wiktionary
1 Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh. 2 Of a general red colour. n. 1 The blood-red colour of raw flesh. 2 Red in general v
1 To cause to be the blood-red colour of raw flesh. 2 To cause to be red or crimson.
WordNet
v. make flesh-colored
Usage examples of "incarnadine".
Even the flaring coral pink and incarnadine satins of the capes glistened with the lubricious tones of intimate feminine flesh and served to underscore the essentially lascivious nature of the frenzy that descended upon the tiered ranks of spectators.
Bids to the front in radiant defile A trooping host whose pomps incarnadine The faded trophies of the dying day, And, lest I fail before so brave array, She decks the quiet clouds where fancies dwell With sweet translucent gleam and melting hue To woo my swooning sense with softer spell Of blissful pink and hyacinthine blue.
Having heard previously sundry menaces, which had been made by these preposterous and incarnadine individuals of hell, now on trial in prospect of condign punishment, fulminated against the longer continuance of my corporeal salubrity, for no better reason than that I reprobated their criminal orgies, and not wishing my reflections to be disturbed, I hurried my steps with a gradual accelerated motion.
A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed themthose acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and forever.
The whole world, the three great spaces of sea and land and sky, were incarnadined with the glory of it.
Closer at hand, Ellison Seabright had been incarnadined from head to foot, Rodrigo Borgia skinned alive, standing in stunned disbelief.
SEMICHORUS I OF THE PITIES Snows incarnadined were thine, O Eylau, field of the wide white spaces, And frozen lakes, and frozen limbs, and blood iced hard as it left the veins: Steel-cased squadrons swathed in cloud-drift, plunging to doom through pathless places, And forty thousand dead and near dead, strewing the early-lighted plains.