Incarnadine

English

Etymology

French incarnadine, Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnadito (“‘flesh color’”), from incarnato (“‘incarnate’”), from Latin incarnari (“‘be made flesh’”), from in + cano (“‘flesh’”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪn'kɑ:nədaɪn/

Adjective

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Positive Incarnadine

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1. Of the blood red colour of raw flesh.
2. Of a general red colour

   • 1992: ‘Basically I am a very good person.’ This from the latest serial killer – destined for the chair, they say – who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas. — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
   • 1955: 'The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abomanible orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.' - Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Noun

Singular Incarnadine

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Incarnadine ({{{1}}})

1. The blood red colour of raw flesh.

   Incarnadine colour:

2. Red in general

Translations

colour

Japanese: 肉色 (にくしょく, nikushoku)

Verb

Infinitive to Incarnadine

Third person singular incarnadin

Simple past -

Past participle -

Present participle ing

to Incarnadine (third-person singular simple present incarnadin, present participle ing, simple past and past participle -)

1. to cause to be the blood-red colour of raw flesh

   • The multitudinous seas incarnadine ... - Macbeth, Shakespeare.

2. to cause to be red or crimson

See also

• (reds) ^[create]

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