coquelicot
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4ADJ.
red
VERB + COQUELICOT
put, wore
COQUELICOT + NOUN
', crown
PREP.
in
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noun
A reddish-orange colour; poppy.
It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.
'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'
adj
Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.
I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.
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3It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.
Wiktionary'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'
WiktionaryI still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelico
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