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vermil

vermil is the alternative form of vermeil.

Meaning of vermeil

Adjective

vermeil (comparative more vermeil, superlative most vermeil)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Bright scarlet, vermilion.
    • And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic, poetic) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
    • his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

See all 5 meanings of vermeil

Forms of vermil

comparativemore vermil
superlativemost vermil

Questions about vermil

What is vermil the alternative form of?
Vermil is the alternative form of vermeil.

Words near vermil in the dictionary

  1. vermifuge
  2. vermifuges
  3. vermifugous
  4. vermigerous
  5. vermigrade
  6. vermil
  7. vermile
  8. vermileonid
  9. vermileonids
  10. vermilion
  11. vermilion border

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vermil (page history and authors); vermeil (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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