Flesh-colored; blood-red.
noun
An incarnadine color.
verb tr.
To make incarnadine.
[Via French and Italian from Latin caro, (flesh). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words such as skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, and scrape.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=incarnadine
"They wait outside the temple, on steps incarnadine with ministerial sacrifice." Simon Jenkins; It's the Voters Wot Win It; The Times (London, UK); Mar 19, 1997.
This week's theme: words for colors.
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