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adjective

Scarlet adj. Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.

Scarlet admiral (Zool.), the red admiral. See under Red. Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean (Phaseolus multiflorus) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner.

Scarlet fever (Med.), a contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day.

Scarlet fish (Zool.), the telescope fish; so called from its red color. See under Telescope.

Scarlet ibis (Zool.) See under Ibis.

Scarlet maple (Bot.), the red maple. See Maple.

Scarlet mite (Zool.), any one of numerous species of bright red carnivorous mites found among grass and moss, especially Thombidium holosericeum and allied species. The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects.

Scarlet oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus coccinea) of the United States; so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn.

Scarlet runner (Bot.), the scarlet bean.

Scarlet tanager. (Zool.) See under Tanager.

noun

Scarlet n.

1.

A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.

2.

Cloth of a scarlet color. "All her household are clothed with scarlet."

verb

Scarlet v. t. To dye or tinge with scarlet. (R.) "The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath."

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Etymology of 'Scarlet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scarlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... description. All classes of society are represented. Side by side with the noble or learned professor, one sees the poorest artisan and the common soldier. Here and there the picturesque face of an artist is in close proximity to a peasant, and through the smoky atmosphere one catches the gleam of the scarlet or sky-blue cap of a German student, or the glitter of an epaulette. The Catholic of the most ultramontane stamp is there, as well as the Jew, the Protestant, and the freethinker. Here stands a pilgrim from far America, armed with a Baedeker, and there ...

— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... and the air heavy with scent. In a room opening upon the veranda wreathed with white-and-scarlet passion-flowers, where she could see the garden and the meadow, and, beyond all, the Mountain Beautiful, lay a sick woman. Her dark face was lovely as an autumn leaf is lovely—hectic with the passing life. Her eyes wandered to the upper snows of ...

— Stories by English Authors: Orient • Various

... like fairy trumpets, in many shades, from snow white to deep rose, and brilliant scarlet, with great variety of delicate marking visible only under a glass. The stem is so sticky that the flowers must be arranged as they are gathered; for they cling to each other more closely than the fabled "brother," ...

— A Bird-Lover in the West • Olive Thorne Miller

... again was that disturbing loveliness. It was a story of the passionate Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Esther Levenson drifted through the four long acts against a background of Tuscan walls, scarlet hangings, oaths, blood-spilling, dark and terrible vengeance. Grimshaw took London by the throat and put it down on ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

... She was even more beautiful to-night than when she had come to the Altstrasse, and, surrounded as she was by beautiful women, seemed to hold by right the central position of the group. Jewels glistened at her throat and in her hair, and across her breast she wore the scarlet ribbon of the ...

— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner

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