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vermeil
UK /ˈvɜː.meɪl/ US /ˈvɝ.mɪl/
noun 3adj 2
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1VERMEIL + NOUN
d, rimm
Definitions
adj
1
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;
2
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)
noun
1
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.
2
Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
3
A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
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And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].
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Many and many a verse I hope to write, Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white, Hide in deep herbage;
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his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].
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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
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