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cremosin

cremosin is the obsolete form of crimson.

Meaning of crimson

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...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168
  2. Immodest.

See all 5 meanings of crimson

Forms of cremosin

comparativemore cremosin
superlativemost cremosin

Questions about cremosin

What is cremosin the obsolete form of?
Cremosin is the obsolete form of crimson.

Words near cremosin in the dictionary

  1. cremophors
  2. cremor
  3. Cremorne
  4. Cremorne Point
  5. cremors
  6. cremosin
  7. crempog
  8. crempogs
  9. crems
  10. Crems white
  11. cremulator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cremosin (page history and authors); crimson (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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