different between crimson vs claret

English

Etymology

Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesin, from Arabic ???????? (qirmiz), from Persian ?????? (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *k??miš. Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (k?mija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??mz?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??mz?n/, /?k??ms?n/

Noun

crimson (countable and uncountable, plural crimsons) crimson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

1. A deep, slightly bluish red.
   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School” in The Return of Sherlock Holmes,^[1]

     To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.

Translations

Adjective

crimson (comparative more crimson, superlative most crimson)

1. Having a deep red colour.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

     Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.

2. Immodest. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

crimson (third-person singular simple present crimsons, present participle crimsoning, simple past and past participle crimsoned)

1. (intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
   • 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662,^[2]

     Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower?

     Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze

     With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
2. (transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1,^[3]

     Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,

     Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, London: Macmillan, 1902, Chapter 28, p. 153,^[4]

     Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […] ”

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, 1951, Chapter 5, p. 138,^[5]

     […] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]

Translations

Derived terms

• crimson lake

Related terms

• kermes
• carmine

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• microns

English

Etymology

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum vinum, from Latin clarus.

Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæ??t/, /?klæ??t/ IPA^(key): /kl????t/
• (hyperforeign) IPA^(key): /?klæ??/, /?klæ??/, /kl????/

Noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly Britain) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
2. A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.

3. (Britain, colloquial) Blood.

Synonyms

• (wine): traditional dry red (Australia)

Translations

See also

• (regional wine): hock, sack, tent

Adjective

claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)

1. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.

Derived terms

• claret cup
• claret-coloured

Verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.
   • 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

     We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

• Paper from the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia on generic wine terminology
• Oxford Companion to Wine – Claret

References

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal

Latin

Verb

cl?ret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cl?r?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clerat, clerote, cleret

Etymology

Old French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum (vinum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klar?t/

Noun

claret (plural clarets)

1. clary (Salvia sclarea)
2. clary water

References

• “claret, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

claret

1. (referring to wine) pink, pink-purple, light

Descendants

• English: claret

References

• “claret, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also