- 1朱紅、硃砂色（廟宇、印泥、漆器的那種橘紅）
A strong, warm red — red with a little orange in it, bright and glowing rather than dark. Think of the red on a temple gate, on a lacquer bowl, or in the seal ink of a Chinese chop. That is vermilion. It works as a noun (the colour, or the pigment itself) and as an adjective before a noun: a vermilion robe, vermilion lips. The word is more common in writing than in speech — painters, designers, art writers, and novelists use it; most people in a shop would just say 'bright red' or 'orange-red'. It also names a real, historic pigment made from the mineral cinnabar (mercury sulfide), which is why it turns up so much in writing about old paintings, Chinese and Japanese art, and about poisonous old paint. Two spellings exist and both are correct: vermilion and vermillion, with the single-l form more usual in dictionaries. If you want to sound natural, use it when the exact shade matters — describing art, clothes, a sunset, autumn leaves — and reach for plain 'red' the rest of the time.
組成From Old French vermeillon, from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus 'little worm', from vermis 'worm'. The 'worm' was Kermes vermilio, a small scale insect crushed to make a crimson dye — so the colour is named after a bug.
同家族的字
- verminboth from Latin vermis 'worm' — vermin came through the same root for small crawling creatures
- vermicellithe thin Italian pasta, literally 'little worms', from the same vermis
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vermilionnoun/vəˈmɪl.jən/
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A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
- Take ſix Ounces of Brimſtone, and melt it in an Iron Ladle, then put two Pound of Quick-ſilver into a ſhammy Leather, or double Linnen Cloth, and ſqueeze it out into the melted Brimſtone, ſtirring them, in the mean Time, with a wooden Spatula till they are well united; and when they are cold, beat the Maſs into a Powder, and ſublime it in a Glaſs-veſſel, with a ſtrong Fire, and it will riſe into that Red Subſtance, which is called artificial Cinnabar or Vermilion.
- Fanny was very pretty; her eyes were dark and brilliant, her teeth were like little pearls; her mouth was almost as red as Mademoiselle Caracoline’s when the latter had put on her vermilion.
- 2
A bright orange-red colour.
- While this particular difference in the shade of vermilion is very striking in the symmetrical, smooth skins of even and regular make, which I have just compared, I must confess that it probably would not be in rough skins such as some European ornithologists appear still content with.
- 3
A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
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The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.
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obsoleteThe kermes or cochineal insect.
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obsoleteThe cochineal dye made from this insect.
vermilionadj/vəˈmɪl.jən/
- 1
Having a brilliant red colour.
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Having the color of the vermilion dye.
vermilionverb/vəˈmɪl.jən/
- 1
To color or paint vermilion.
- Coraly has few of thoſe charms that conſtitute perſonal excellence—her cheek is pallid—her eye no brilliant; but when the latter beams benevolence, or ſparkles with mirth—when the former is ſuffuſed with the captivating bluſh of modeſty, or vermilioned with the glow of the tender paſſion, there are none more pleaſing.
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