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coquelicot

/ˈkɑkləˌkoʊ/

coquelicot noun: a reddish-orange colour; poppy.

Noun

coquelicot (countable and uncountable, plural coquelicots)

  1. A reddish-orange colour; poppy.
    • It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • 'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'2011, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide: The Morland Dynasty, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Adjective

coquelicot (comparative more coquelicot, superlative most coquelicot)

  1. Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.
    • I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN

Forms of coquelicot

Noun
pluralcoquelicots
Adjective
comparativemore coquelicot
superlativemost coquelicot

Origin of coquelicot

Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).

Questions about coquelicot

What does coquelicot mean?
Coquelicot means a reddish-orange colour; poppy.
What part of speech is coquelicot?
Coquelicot can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce coquelicot?
Coquelicot is pronounced /ˈkɑkləˌkoʊ/.
What is the plural of coquelicot?
The plural of coquelicot is coquelicots.

Words near coquelicot in the dictionary

  1. coquaternions
  2. coque
  3. coquecigrue
  4. coquecigrues
  5. coquel
  6. coquelicot
  7. coquelicots
  8. Coquelles
  9. coquels
  10. coqueluche
  11. coqueluches

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