incarnadine (in-KAHR-nuh-dyn) adjective Flesh-colored; blood-red.
noun An incarnadine color. verb tr. To make incarnadine. [Via French and Italian from Latin caro, (flesh). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words such as skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, and scrape.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=incarnadine "They wait outside the temple, on steps incarnadine with ministerial sacrifice." Simon Jenkins; It's the Voters Wot Win It; The Times (London, UK); Mar 19, 1997. This week's theme: words for colors. Sponsored by: Customize Thinking Putty as a Corporate Gift! Adult-sized handfuls, fun colors, and your own full color artwork: http://puttyworld.com/custom.html Monthly French, German, Italian and Spanish cultural audio magazines for intermediate-to-advanced learners. http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith1 ............................................................................ Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.--John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) Share the magic of words. Send a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/incarnadine.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/incarnadine.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/incarnadine.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
