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1684 tr. S. Du Clos Observ. Mineral Waters France 110 The Salt of its Sediment..caus'd Mercury Sublimate dissolv'd in Common Water to precipitate in a deep Crimson, as do the Alcalies of Plants. [Side note] Nacarate.

1705 tr. Whole Art of Dying 160 The Scarlates which are design'd for a deeper Dye, ought not to be brightned, if we don't design they should encline to the Scarlate shred, Nacarat, or Orange Red.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Dying Nacarat, or bright orange-red, is given with weld, and goats hair, boiled with pot-ashes.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 874 Nacarat, is a term..applied to a pale red colour, with an orange cast.

1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxi. 26 A small box I had bought for its brilliancy, made of some tropic shell of the colour called ‘nacarat’.

1854 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art (1862) 33 We can never ally mahogany to vivid reds,..and more particularly to orange-reds, such as scarlet, nacarat, and aurora.

1933 C. A. Smith Demon of Flower in Lost Worlds (1944) 272 Abhorrent and monstrous was the bowl—..it flamed at the rim to a hot yellowish nacarat red, like the ichor of salamanders.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 874 The nacarat of Portugal or Bezetta is a crape or fine linen fabric, dyed fugitively of the above tint, which ladies rub upon their countenances to give them a roseate hue.