Meaning of Carmine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from Italian.
2. A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
   countable, uncountable
3. A surname from Italian.
4. A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have⟳ been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like⟳ to use⟳ it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have⟳ to be mentioned on labels.”

“He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face⟳ was the color of carmine.”

“I am alive, I guess⟳, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end⟳ / The carmine tingles warm,”

“He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.”

“[…] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like⟳ swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light⟳ and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]”

“The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk⟳ about velvet you got to say⟳ 'carmine.'”

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