| Front | incarnadine \in-KAHR-nuh-dyne\ |
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| Back | adjective Flesh-colored; blood-red. noun An incarnadine color. verb tr. To make incarnadine. [Via French and Italian from Latin caro, (flesh). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words such as skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, and scrape.] "They wait outside the temple, on steps incarnadine with ministerial sacrifice." - Simon Jenkins; It's the Voters Wot Win It; The Times (London, UK); Mar 19, 1997. |
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