Sentence examples for vermillion from inspiring English sources

The word 'vermillion' is correct and can be used in written English
It is a shade of red, sometimes described as a bright, vivid red-orange. It can be used to describe a color, a pigment, or even a type of paint. Example: The artist used a combination of vermillion and gold paint to create a striking contrast in his abstract painting.

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vermillion

adjective

Alternative spelling of vermilion

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There, the galleries open on to a courtyard filled with coconut palms and vermillion flowers, allowing a visitor to daydream about the landscape where the original artists of Angkor worked.In their temporary home in Berlin, the sculptures are given descriptions that are a little thin.

When taboos disappear in a puff of red smoke to make space not only for felines and ghosts, but ruthless criminals, unsightly wounds and lethal vermillion cocktails?

However, I suspect he rather likes the look – the vintage moustache is partnered by a cream-coloured sports jacket, a cravat and, swinging casually from one hand, a glorious, glittering motorcycling helmet in bright vermillion.

Finally, just to make sure you're comprehensively covered, add a slick of blood red lipstick and a vampy vermillion polish to the nails.

With the arrival of autumn the forests and woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere are gradually transforming into a striking natural show of russet, vermillion, gold, bronze and yellow.

During the Festival, devotees are smeared with vermillion powder and 30 chariots containing the images of several gods and goddesses are carrying by the devotees around the town, while others sing, dance and play musical instruments.

The campaign launches four new lipstick shades, each named after one of the campaign models: Eva's is a brick red shade, Liya's is an orange-tinged theatrical shade, Blake's a darker berry shade and Julianne's is vermillion red.

Davidoff makes clothes for other celebrities, including John Nicholas Brown, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, who seems to have an ungovernable weakness for vermillion slacks.

The answer to his question was clear, given that my mother was wearing the red and white bangles unique to Bengali married women, and a common Tangail sari, and had a thick stem of vermillion powder in the center parting of her hair, and the full round face and large dark eyes that are so typical of Bengali women.

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The traditional means of setting off a cutout repoussé design was to superimpose it on a vermillion-coloured background panel.

By William ZarankaWhenas in jeans my Julia crams Her vasty hips and mammoth hams, And zips-up all her diaphragms,   Then, then, methinks, how quaintly shows (Vermillion-painted as the rose) The laquefaction of her toes.Answer: Robert Herrick.

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