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scarlet noun /ˈskɑːlət/ /ˈskɑːrlət/ [uncountable] jump to other results - a bright red colour
- Her lips were a flash of scarlet.
Topics Colours and Shapesc2
scarlet adjective /ˈskɑːlət/ /ˈskɑːrlət/ jump to other results - bright red in colour
- scarlet berries
- She went scarlet with embarrassment.
- She flushed bright scarlet.
Topics Colours and Shapesc2Word OriginMiddle English (originally denoting any brightly coloured cloth): shortening of Old French escarlate, from medieval Latin scarlata, via Arabic and medieval Greek from late Latin sigillatus ‘decorated with small images’, from sigillum ‘small image’.
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