crimson
krim zuhn
- n a deep and vivid red color
- v turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- s of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
- s characterized by violence or bloodshed
writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke
fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray - s (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
crimson with fury
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
- Then Inul swaggers on stage, packed in tight red jeans and a glittering crimson tank top.
- Harvard alums were blushing a deep crimson red last week as the university's Committee on College Life approved the campus's first student sex magazine.
- Charles William Eliot's slight volume, Harvard Memories, has issued from the Cambridge presses in crimson covers.