By other means it can be prepared as a brilliant red powder known as vermilion, which is used as a pigment in fine paints. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Another rite portraying the transfer in India is the marking of the bride's forehead with vermilion, which is no doubt a substitute for blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
She rubs her forehead against the bride's so as to colour it also with vermilion, which is now considered the symbol of a long and happy married life. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Take, for example, the very chromatic pigments representing red and green, such as vermilion and emerald green. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
In the case of a very heavy colour such as vermilion, a drop of glue solution will keep the colour smooth for printing, and less paste is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice] Reference
Her stockings were black, and the garters vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Mix white lead, stone-ochre, and a little vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The addition of a little vermilion gives a grayer green. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The ceilings of its gilded roofs were of cedar painted with vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Lake and white, with a little vermilion, shaded with lake and carmine. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Within this enclosure were several shapeless stone gods, painted with vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
vermilion and lake, shaded with carmine, heightened with vermilion and white. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
So do I, gaze drawn by flashing, brilliant vermilion amid sodden tones of landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
I confessed as I squeezed out the last of a tube of vermilion on the edge of my palette. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The host has encamped on Thames: all the meadow is covered with tents, green and vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The sun, now hastening to his setting, was tingeing all the western ocean with a rich vermilion glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
The scalp at the part was painted vermilion, and around each eye was a ring of the same bright colour. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
The coloring is also very striking, the outside being of vermilion and gold, the inside of green, gold, and purple. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Carmine is sometimes sophisticated with starch, vermilion, and with alumina not formed in the process of manufacture. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Besides the vermilion lavishly displayed on her face, the crease at the parting of her hair was painted the same color. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
'Thank heaven,' cried Josephine, raising the wine glass to her vermilion lips -- 'we are at last clear of that odious New York!. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
From the piano, I watched, incredulous, as she pursed her vermilion lips at Zack, before lowering them in anticipation of his cue. From Wordnik.com. [Dropping the Ball] Reference
As, however, native vermilion has become commercially obsolete, the question of their comparative permanence is of little importance. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
There are two kinds of vermilion in common use, European and Chinese, of which the first inclines to orange and the second to purple. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Both had their faces completely smeared with the bright vermilion obtained by trade from us, and they presented in our eyes a ludicrous appearance. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
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