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• Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.From the entry tint
• Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.From the entry secondary
• The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.2013, John R. Fultz, “A Council of Kings”, in Seven Kings (Books of the Shaper; II), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry silver mail
• A patch of sidewalk scarlet with spat paan, two hobbity toe-haired toes flexing up-chappal in mid-wade.2003, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused. From the entry hobbity
• It tinges all its length with scarlet stains and mauve globules of burning dew.2003, Kenneth Grant, Gamaliel The Diary of a Vampire, page 27. From the entry moon flood
• Seed production in scarlet oaks varies greatly from year to year; occasionally the trees produce bumper crops.2002, Charles Fergus, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, page 118. From the entry scarlet oak
• I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry nigrescent
• Prince Rupert's Footguards wore scarlet, and in Cromwell's army some wore scarlet coats with different facings.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 189. From the entry facing
• A scarlet precipitate (C₈H₁₄N₄O₄Ni) will be present if nickel is present.1964, The Griffith Observer, volume 28, Los Angeles, Calif.: Griffith Observatory, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1. From the entry meteorwrong
• It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 9. From the entry floodlit
• They were dressed in the Earl’s stable colors—scarlet silk body jackets and long scarlet stockings.1948, Marguerite Henry, chapter 22, in King of the Wind, New York: Rand McNally, published 1970, page 163. From the entry body jacket
• A huge vase of scarlet anthuria and poinsettias, arranged with ferns, stood in the center.1943, Alice Northrop Snow, The Story of Helen Gould, Daughter of Jay Gould, Great American, volume 1, New York, N.Y.; London; Edinburgh…. From the entry anthurium
• Dragons, Klabees and Cyclopses were present in robes of gold, purple, scarlet.1923, Time, volume 2. From the entry Klabee
• His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19. From the entry woodpecker
• Urobilinuria is frequent with scarlet fever (Jugendreich) particularly with the malignant or more severe types.1916, Henry Leopold Elsner, The Prognosis of Internal Diseases, volume 6, page 783. From the entry urobilinuria
• At his daughter Clara’s nuptials, Twain wore a scarlet ceremonial robe, a choice designed to steal the show.2025 May 9, Danny Heitman, “Mark Twain’s legacy is not his tall tales. It’s his larger-than-life persona.”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry the bride at every wedding
• A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.2010, Venantius Fortunatus, translated by Joseph Pucci, “To Radegund (d. 587) and/or to Agnes (d. no later than 589)”, in Poems to…. From the entry crocusy
• If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, "I am a homophobe!"2001 April 23, Henry Rollins, Talk Is Cheap, Volume I, published 3 January 2003. From the entry homophobe
• Some say the leaves show scarlet blotches upon the day ofthe year when Salome, it is said, demanded St.1998, Dalkey, Kara, 1953-, Bhagavati. From the entry beheadment
• Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok. From the entry dose
• Scarlet ladies, gambling women, adventureresses; they’re all magnificently represented in this most readable history book that tells it like it was.1970 January 2, Gordon Aalborg, “West’s wild women”, in The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page 53, column 5. From the entry adventureress
• THEY are to be found in a region of multi-colored parrots, scarlet banksias, white-blossomed red-gums, and blue boundlessness of ocean.1940 November 30, “This Bally Ally Rally”, in Smith’s Weekly, Sydney, N.S.W., page 7. From the entry prime ministress
• Santa Claus in a glowing costume of scarlet satin, becoming to her rosy, youthful face and mop of curling gray hair.1936 January 12, Cousin Eve [pseudonym], “[Archbishop of York Delights Chicago Society […]] Chummy Place Cards Cause a Hubbub.”, in…. From the entry Mme. Santa Claus
• A servant in scarlet interrupted him; he was the chuprassy of the Civil Surgeon, and he handed Aziz a note.1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13. From the entry chaprasi
• As the two topped the ridge there burst on them the strong scarlet light of a red-curtained English inn.1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown. From the entry amplitude
• Jolly stunt! when I first came I was awfully afraid—” Gerald pulled himself up suddenly, and blushed scarlet.1901, Laura E. Richards, “Chapter XV. Jewels: And an Awakening”, in Fernley House, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 199. From the entry acrobatess
• Red bangles are stacked all the way to her elbows and her glittering scarlet dupatta is pinned to the high mound of her hair.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 284. From the entry dupatta
• I’m remembering that time when there was a mourning warbler on that chip path 15 years ago and I remember the scarlet tanagers last week.2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, quoting Christian Cooper, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why…. From the entry tanager
• Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2026. From the entry bilberry
• Because the child bases her repudiation of Hester on the absence of the scarlet letter, we must begin by considering the significance of that “unlettering.”2014, Richard H. Millington, Practicing Romance, page 90. From the entry unlettering
• A little poking around in the shrubbery should reveal its science fiction-like body, resembling slimy scarlet tentacles emerging from a half-buried egg.2006 October 21, Peter Marren, “Day of the fungi”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 15. From the entry devil's fingers
• Scarlet red is an aniline dye which has been used in the treatment of wounds and ulcers since the beginning of the past century.2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin, page 219. From the entry scarlet red
• 'Scarlet collar' workers are the feminists of the modern age, say psychologists, free from coercion and the dangers of the traditional, male dominated business.2002, Dànielle De Voss, “Women's Porn Sites-Spaces of Fissure and Eruption or "I'm a Little Bit of Everything"”, in Sexuality & Culture…. From the entry scarlet-collar
• Bogo de Clare’s esquires were bought three cloths of scarlet ray and three of yellow cloth, together with furs and hoods of budge (lambskin).1999, C. M. Woolgar, “The Senses, Religion and Intellectual Life”, in The Great Household in Late Medieval England, New Haven, Conn.: Yale…. From the entry bluet
• It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164. From the entry fox
• She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 25. From the entry sleeveless
• His trousers, patched like his coat, dropped over a pair of scarlet charouhias, leather shoes with upturned toes decorated with a large black-and-white pompon.1956, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, Penguin, page 47. From the entry tsarouchi

Meaning of scarlet

1. noun A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
2. noun Cloth of a scarlet color.
3. adjective Of a bright red colour.

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How do you use scarlet in a sentence?

Scarlet is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.”

What is a short sentence with scarlet?

“a scarlet woman”

What does scarlet mean?

Scarlet means a brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.