vermeil

Bright scarlet, vermilion.

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;

Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.

his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].

a lip as vermeil as her own. (IV, xxx)

Vermilion; bright red.

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.

Silver gilt or gilt bronze.

A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.