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▪ I. vermeil, vermil, a. and n.|ˈvɜːmɪl|
Forms: α. 5 vermaile, -mayle, -meyle, 6 vermayll, 7 -meyl; 6 vermeill, 8–9 -meille, 6– vermeil. β. 6 vermell, 7 vermel; 6–7 vermile, 7 -myle; 8–9 vermil.
[a. AF. and OF. vermail, vermeil adj. and n. (11th c., mod.F. vermeil, = Prov. vermelh, vermel):—acc. sing. of L. vermiculus, dim. of vermis worm: see vermicle, and cf. vermilion n. and vermily.]
A. adj. Of a bright scarlet or red colour; vermilion. Chiefly poet.
αc1400Rom. Rose 3645 Ful fayre it [sc. the rose] spradde the god of blesse For suche another as I gesse Aforne ne was ne more vermayle. c1420Lydg. Ballad at Reverence Our Lady 45 (Skeat), Benigne braunchelet of the pyne-tree, Vyneyerd vermayle. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 74 Take not colde water in stede of vermayll wine. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 37 The pretty fische..vitht there rede vermeil fynnis. 1596Spenser Prothal. ii, With store of vermeil Roses, To decke their Bridegromes posies. 1802Sporting Mag. XII. 359 Nature's vermeil robe and lilied vest. 1807Wordsw. White Doe ii. 12 This Maid, who wrought..In vermeil colours and in gold An unblest work. 1812S. Rogers Columbus Poems (1839) 42 Tinging with vermeil light the billows blue. 1898M. M. Dowie Crook of Bough 165 The vermeil flood mounted in her cheeks, but she met his glance fully.
β1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos i, A vermile crosse the Cyprian king still wore. 1637Milton Lycidas (MS. draft), That sad Floure that strove To write his own Woes on the vermel Graine. 1692J. Salter Triumphs Jesus 17 A Face with Vermile Paint still over-laid. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. I. 4 In noon's bright blaze thy vermil vest unfold. 1800Moore Anacreon lvi, The ripe and vermil wine, Sweet infant of the pregnant vine.
b. Freq. of the countenance, lips, etc.
c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 626 The dimples of a vermile cheek. 1754Gray Pleasure fr. Vicissitude 3 With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She [sc. the morn] woo's the tardy spring. 1780S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett (ed. 4) II. 176 The invisible sigh steals through its vermeil passages. 1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth (1892) III. xxx. 198 A lip as vermeil as her own. 1864Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage I. i. 29 The vermeil cheeks..faded away into creamy hues.
transf.1759Mallet Fragment Wks. I. 50 The vivid pulse, the vermil grace,..Youth, beauty, pleasure, all are thine! 1800Moore Anacreon xiv. note 3 So many vermil, honeyed kisses, Envy can never count our blisses.
c. With names of colours; esp. vermeil red.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 22 In her cheekes the vermeill red did shew. 1791Huddesford Salmag. 121 Thy vermeil red and living green In mimic folds thou shalt display. 1859Tennyson Enid 364 Like a blossom vermeil-white, That lightly breaks a faded flower-sheath. 1906C. M. Doughty Dawn in Britain I. 68 Her rud as apple blossoms, vermeil-white, Her locks..Like sunny rays.
B. n.
1. Vermilion hue or colour.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 45 The snowy substaunce [ante frothy billowes] sprent With vermell, like the boyes bloud therein shed. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. x. xli, So when cleare ivorie vermeil fitly blots, By stains it fairer grows. 1728Fielding Love in Sev. Masques i. v, It has exagitated my complexion to that exorbitancy of vermeille. c1750Shenstone Ruined Abbey 180 The vivid vermeil fled his fady cheek. 1848Lytton Harold iii. iv, The orb was sinking red and lurid, amidst long cloud-wracks of vermeil and purple. 1892‘M. Field’ Sight & Song 1 A cloak Of vermeil and of blue.
†b. transf. Blood. Obs. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 24 How oft that day did sad Brunchildis see The greene shield dyde in dolorous vermell? 1594Greene Selimus 670 Ile follow Mars,..And die my shield in dolorous vermeil. 1812Cary Dante, Parad. xvi. 151 With these [I] saw her so glorious and so just, that ne'er The lily from the lance had hung reverse, Or through division been with vermeil dyed.
†2. = vermilion n. 1 a. Obs. rare—1.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. xxxii, A painted face, belied with vermeyl store.
3. (See quots.)
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 250 Oriental Ruby. Its colour is carmine red,..sometimes red and white, or red and blue, and thence called sapphire ruby, or orange red, by some called vermeille or rubicelle. 1884Imp. Dict., Vermeil, a jeweller's name for a crimson-red garnet inclining slightly to orange.
4. Gilding. (See quot.) Also attrib.
Directly from mod.F. vermeil; the quotation is part of a description of the French method of gilding.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 613 The vermeil coat. Vermeil is a liquid which gives lustre and fire to the gold, and makes it resemble or moulu. [Hence in later Dicts.]
b. Silver-gilt; gilt bronze.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Vermeil (French), silver gilt, or gilt bronze. [Hence in later Dicts.] 1889Harper's Mag. Aug. 334/2 The iconostase or screen is a high wall of burnished vermeil. 191119th Cent. May 841 Golden pheasants sat..on platters of embossed vermeille.
C. Comb. (chiefly parasynthetic), as vermeil-cheeked, vermeil-dyed, vermeil-rimmed, vermeil-tinctured, vermeil-tinted, vermeil-veined adjs.
1634Milton Comus 752 What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that? 1777Potter æschylus, Furies 451 Let th' Athenian train{ddd}now advance, Array'd in richest vesture darting round Its vermeil-tinctur'd radiance. 1810Shelley Hope iv. Orig. Poetry (1898) 25 The vermiel [sic] tinted flowers. 1818Keats Endymion i. 50 Before the daisies, vermeil rimm'd and white, Hide in deep herbage. 1820― St. Agnes xxxviii, Thy beauty's shield, heart-shap'd and vermeil dyed. 1821L. Hunt Indicator No. 67 (1822) II. 117 The bearded and the vermeil-cheeked. 1905Holman-Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism i. 4 Cheeks vermeil-veined by the pencilling of nature.
▪ II. vermeil, vermil, v. Chiefly poet.|ˈvɜːmɪl|
[f. prec. Cf. the earlier envermeil v.]
trans. To colour or suffuse, to stain over, with or as with vermilion or bright red. Also transf.
1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 278 The presses painted & vermiled with golde. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy xiii. lxxxix, Euen till his armes with blood were vermeil'd o're. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. xi. 164 Their bewties, all sophisticate to viewe (Vulgarlie vermilld to pretende as trewe). 1785J. Sterling Cambuscan cclii, Abundant roses vermil o'er the plain. 1832J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle, etc. 171 'Twas vermilled o'er with sweetest dye That nature's pencil ever spread.
Hence ˈvermeiled, ˈvermiled ppl. a.
1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. ix. 17 Her painted truith, her vermild modestie. |