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scarlet

[skahr-lit]

noun

  1. a bright-red color inclining toward orange.

  2. cloth or clothing of this color.



adjective

  1. of the color scarlet.

  2. flagrantly offensive.

    Their sins were scarlet.

scarlet

/ ˈɑːɪ /

noun

  1. a vivid red colour, sometimes with an orange tinge

  2. cloth or clothing of this colour

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of the colour scarlet

  2. sinful or immoral, esp unchaste

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scarlet1

1200–50; Middle English < Old French escarlate < Medieval Latin scarlata, scarletum, perhaps < Arabic saqirlāṭ, siqillāṭ < Medieval Greek áٴDz < Latin ٳܲ decorated with patterns in relief; sigillate
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scarlet1

C13: from Old French escarlate fine cloth, of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

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His outsider status as a hunchback is instead a costume that presumably serves as scarlet letter or Star of David.

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I believe he lived with a scarlet letter on him because of it.

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She said the family was the butt of repeated jokes on “Saturday Night Live” and lived like outcasts who wore a “scarlet M.”

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Each morning there's a huddle of cameras and reporters on the lookout for the men in lace and scarlet robes.

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The Chelsea Pensioners, retired British Army veterans, live at the Royal Hospital in London and have helped shape the design, which includes a homage to their scarlet uniforms.

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