Examples from literature

• He wears a cerise belt round his tunic exactly matching the wine in the goblet he carries. 
• The cerise gown dropped to her shoulders without grazing a hair. 
• The red of the hall paled beside the cerise costume of the approaching lady. 
• Transparent, white, or silver beads are usually worked with white silk, but clear glass beads, threaded on cerise silk, produce a peculiarly rich effect by the coloured silk shining through transparent glass. 
• With each pace the slashed silken skirt parted to reveal a shameless glimpse of cerise silk stocking.