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vermeils

vermeils is the plural of vermeil.

Meaning of vermeil

Noun

vermeil (plural vermeils)

  1. (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.
    • The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
  3. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

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Questions about vermeils

What is vermeils the plural of?
Vermeils is the plural of vermeil.

Words near vermeils in the dictionary

  1. Vermeers
  2. vermeil
  3. vermeiled
  4. vermeille
  5. vermeilled
  6. vermeils
  7. vermelone
  8. vermentino
  9. vermentinos
  10. vermeologist
  11. vermeologists

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