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cerise
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tags: [color]
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Definition:1. a bright red color
2. [French] a cherry
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Miss Naughty Bird Peavy, sister of the groom, was arresting in a grape-colored woolen crepe with draped front, multicolored beaded necklace, and cerise gloves and shoes.
Fannie Flagg. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, pp.229-230 (1987)
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[...] Sarc One is when I look at you, and I say, 'Ohmygod, a cerise shirt. Cerise such an in color this year.' That's just ordinary intentionally obvious sarcasm. Okay?"Tom Wolfe. I am Charlotte Simmons, p134 (2004)
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Mme Yoshoto, in a beautiful, black and cerise silk kimono,
J.D. Salinger. Nine Stories: De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, p.140 (1948)
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Reynauld: [dejectedly picking through his empty bonbon box] framboise ... noix de coco ...cerise ...
Adam Reed. Archer, season 9, Danger Island: Disheartening Situation @10:30 (2018)
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She looked up with a sort of start.
“Qu’ avez-vous, mademoiselle?” said she. “Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises!”*
“I am hot, Adèle, with stooping!” She went on sketching; I went on thinking.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
*your fingers tremble like a leaf, and your cheeks are red, but red like cherries!
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