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• The Lord mayor and sheriff ride in their armour with surcoats of crimson.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 165. From the entry surcoat
• The Gunsmith fired back and saw a crimson spider appear at the man's shoulder.2014, J.R. Roberts, Gundown in Paradise, →ISBN. From the entry colt
• The sick-wagon appeared only a silver dot in the crimsoning distance.2010, Earnest "Tex" Sims Sr., Once Upon A Time in the Past: The Sons of Sam Logan, page 30. From the entry sick-wagon
• 'Sorry—just trying on new lippies for tonight,' she confessed, flashing a crimson smile.2008, Rachel Power, “Emma Matthews—Opera Singer”, in The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, Fitzroy, Vic.: Red Dog Books, →ISBN…. From the entry lippy
• No less than four standard-bearers went before them, carrying huge crimson banners emblazoned with the golden lion.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555. From the entry less
• The altarcloth is bordered by a frieze depicting a running hound embroidered on a crimson ground.1994, Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto, page 262. From the entry altarcloth
• Delias were made of heavier materials, crimson or blue cloth or velvet, occasionally brocade.1987, Zdzisław Żygulski, An Outline History of Polish Applied Art, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry delia
• The sort of woman with crimson hair and rainbow petticoats, come-hither eyes and a throaty laugh.1986, Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine. From the entry come-hither
• The crimson banners of Samarkand dartled above the low breakers of drifted sand.1938, Walter Claremartin, Golden Hour of Guchee. From the entry dartle
• Her breaths were coming in a happy storm, her face crimsoning, her nostrils playing in trembling dilation.1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass. From the entry crimsoning
• Their snow-white knickers and crimson stockings changed uniforms forever.2015, Jim Bresnahan, Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been, page 14. From the entry baseballdom
• Through the fog she could see hulking shapes that shambled along the uncanny roadway, dark shadows against the crimson radiance.2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Bloodstone. From the entry pulsant
• A black cape with a crimson lining finished the outfit, connecting to two red stones on her fingers.2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8. From the entry yellow-red
• It was glowing a brilliant crimson from the cone, the wax-based lava releasing the occasional blorp of heated air."2009, Donn Cortez, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Killing Jar, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry blorp
• The bolts were stacked near a wall in shades of teal, seafoam, turquoise, navy, sapphire, sky blue, cream, gold, crimson, coral.2008 May 28, Eric Konigsberg, “A City Tailor Who Revels in the Boldest Sportswear”, in New York Times. From the entry seafoam
• Fangliao is celebrated for bell-shaped "Black Pearl" bell-fruit of glowing dark crimson skin, and tiny whitebait called Burahi.2004 June 27, Joan Stanley-Baker, “Arts get regional in Fangliao”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug…. From the entry Pingdong
• It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.2002, Christopher Paolini, chapter 3, in Eragon. From the entry sable
• Each carried a shielded crimson dive light, invisible from the surface, which gave objects a gray, pallid distortion.1990, Charles Ryan, The capricorn quadrant, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry butt bag
• If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry dye
• It turned the surrounding terrain into a dank bloodscape, full of crimson and evanescent forms like uncomprehended murders .1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, Sienna Cameron. From the entry bloodscape
• Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.a. 1964, Arthur Upfield, “Fozen Pumps”, in Kees de Hoog, editor, Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog, published…. From the entry schooner
• Children's voices in the orchard Between the blossom- and the fruit-time: Golden head, crimson head, Between the green tip and root.1934, T.S. Eliot, New Hampshire. From the entry fruit-time
• Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.1917, Edgar Wallace, chapter 6, in The Keepers of the King's Peace. From the entry blob
• Crousse, white and crimson; Duchess de Nemours, sulphur white and fragrant; Marie Lemoine, ivory white; Delicatissima, crimson purple.1915, House & Garden, page 55. From the entry baker's
• Gray Wolf came to his side and licked his neck, where fresh blood was crimsoning his tawny hide.1914, James Oliver Curwood, Kazan. From the entry crimsoning
• Generously, Nick Padley gives me a bag of their babyleaf mix, in its shades of crimson and emerald, to try at home.2019, Jay Rayner, My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making. From the entry babyleaf
• Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77. From the entry opah
• Crimson and orange chats whistled from the heath of spinifex, pittosporums, mulga and eremophila scrubs growing along the sides of the lake.2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 190. From the entry pittosporum
• Saying this, Rikyu stepped into the garden, shook a tree and scattered over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps of the brocade of autumn!2012, Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry brocade
• In fact I've just whizzed outside to have a good look: it starts olive green and becomes a deep crimson as it hits light.2004 January 11, Monty Don, “Bring back the birch”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry olivey
• He would see himself the image of the ageless one as, athwart and abrazened, the tally-caster coast of crimson breeze bespoke its truthsome squeal.2003, J. B. Miller, The Satanic Nurses. From the entry truthsome
• His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555. From the entry chamfron
• He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.1998, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, New York: Bantam, published 1999, page 447. From the entry stormwind
• The dozen or so couples were walking and jiving to their tables and the crimson light was turned off under the glass dance-floor.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 55. From the entry witch ball
• Out of the black window Steerpike saw, as a result of his cough, the small gimlety eyes peer coldly from a crimson wedge.1946, Mervyn Peake, “Near and Far”, in Titus Groan, Penguin, published 1981, page 142. From the entry gimlety
• There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.1924 December, William A[lfred] Quayle, “The Gardener”, in Out-of-doors with Jesus, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.: The Abingdon Press…. From the entry archipelago
• The yellow is oo, the central crescent is of black oo on the upper half and crimson apapane feathers on the lower.1918, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, page 28. From the entry apapane
• The house was painted crimson and a headhigh brick wall stretched out and closed in the backyard and a single light shined in an upstairs window.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 196. From the entry headhigh

Meaning of crimson

1. noun A deep, slightly bluish red.
2. adjective Having a deep red colour.
3. adjective Immodest.

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How do you use crimson in a sentence?

Crimson is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.”

What is a short sentence with crimson?

“Their snow-white knickers and crimson stockings changed uniforms forever.”

What does crimson mean?

Crimson means a deep, slightly bluish red.