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incarnadine
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Definition:the blood-red color of a raw piece of meat
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[...] the abominable orange-red pear-shaped plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.275 (1961)
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"[...] They could have had twice as much blood from me. The multitudinous seas incarnadine."
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.78 (1932)
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Repose had again incarnadined her cheeks;
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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