scarlet
Definitions
noun
A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
Cloth of a scarlet color.
All her household are clothed with scarlet.
adj
Of a bright red colour.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
Sinful or whorish.
a scarlet woman
Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.
He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.
verb
To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet.
Forbeare; the aſhy paleneſſe of my cheeke / Is ſcarletted in ruddy flakes of vvrath: […]