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Vermeil   Listen
noun
Vermeil  n.  
1.
Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red. (Poetic & R.) "In her cheeks the vermeill red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed."
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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"Vermeil" Quotes from Famous Books



... look," or by her "beautiful vexed eyes," which resemble a "sudden angry gray arrow,"—imagine an angry gray arrow,—or by "flaming out into crimson anger," or "with wreathed neck and flaming cheek," or "with enkindled eye and vermeil cheek," both of which expressions we would recommend to lovers ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 • Various


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