vermeil
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Is vermeil a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of vermeil?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.Examples: "And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…]."; "Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;"archaicpoetic
2. (poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.Examples: "his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…]."; "a lip as vermeil as her own. (IV, xxx)"archaicpoetic
noun (English)
1. (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.Examples: "The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep."poetic
Definition source: Wiktionary