English

Adjective

incarnadine ‎(comparative more incarnadine, superlative most incarnadine)

1. Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh.
2. Of a general red colour.
   • 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:

     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.

   • 1955, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:

     The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable 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.

Noun

incarnadine ‎(plural incarnadines)

1. The blood-red colour of raw flesh.

   incarnadine colour:

2. Red in general

Verb

incarnadine ‎(third-person singular simple present incarnadines, present participle incarnadining, simple past and past participle incarnadined)

1. To cause to be the blood-red colour of raw flesh.
   • 1611, Shakespeare, Macbeth:

     Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.

2. To cause to be red or crimson.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}