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▪ I. incarnadine, a. and n. arch.|ɪnˈkɑːnədɪn, -aɪn|
Also 7 -in.
[a. F. incarnadin, -ine (16th c.), ad. It. incarnadino, var. of incarnatino carnation, flesh-colour, deriv. of incarnato incarnate.]
A. adj. Properly, Flesh-coloured, carnation, pale red or pink; but
b. also used for various shades of crimson or blood-red (cf. carnation2); in mod. use sometimes = Blood-stained (from Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 62: see incarnadine v.).
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 609 Her wings and train of feathers (mixed fine) Of orient Azure and incarnadine. 1649Lovelace Poems, To my Lady H. (1864) 124 Whose white satin upper coat of skin, Cut upon velvet rich incarnadin, Has yet a body (and of flesh) within. 1658Phillips, Incarnadin colour, a flesh colour, or the colour of a Damask Rose. c1872in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus, Ohio (1892) I. 710 The color ranged from a deep crimson to a light or pale incarnadine.
b.1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 509 You'll..calmly wash those hands incarnadine. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg., Jerry Jarvis's Wig, His very fore head was incarnadine. 1888Watts-Dunton in Athenæum 18 Aug. 225/1 And Night's black wings are glowing incarnadine From Dover cliffs to Gravelines tower With sparks—with fiery flakes, a ruddy shower On breeze and brine!
B. n. Flesh-colour, blush colour; also, a crimson or blood-red colour (see A).
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. (1661) 155 Incarnadine, or flesh colour. 1735Sewel Dutch Dict. (ed. 3), Hoog rood, Carnation-colour, incarnadine. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iv. ii. 147 No Barbaric blood can reconcile us now Unto that horrible incarnadine. 1865Trench Gust. Adolphus i. 49 To take the rich incarnadine of blood.
▪ II. inˈcarnadine, v. arch.
Also erron. incarnardine.
[f. prec.]
trans. To dye or tinge with incarnadine (see prec.); to redden.
Properly, to make flesh-coloured or carnation; but from Shakespeare onward associated with the colour of blood.
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 62 This my Hand will rather The multitudinous Seas incarnardine, Making the Greene, one Red. a1639Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 85 A fourth [shall] incarnadine Thy rosie cheeke. 1791Cowper Iliad xi. 480 His blood the glebe Incarnadines. 1831L. Ritchie Capt. Conspirator in Remembrance 144 The yellow oil⁓flower, incarnardined with gorgeous poppies, fluttered in the waving wind. 1845Longfellow Evening Star, The painted oriel of the West Whose panes..the sunken sun incarnadines. 1866Conington æneid vi. 176 War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood I see incarnadined with blood.
fig.1879Farrar St. Paul ix. (1893) 98 Not the only blood of which the stains had incarnadined his conscience.
Hence inˈcarnadined ppl. a.
1821Tales of Landlord New Ser. Witch Glas Llyn II. 170 The fierce reflection glowed on the incarnadined waters of the Clowdoc. |