20091003Word of the Day

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incarnadine

\in-KAR-nuh-dyn\ , adjective, verb:
1.Having a fleshy pink color.2.Red; blood-red.transitive verb: 1.To make red or crimson.
形容词 a.
1.粉红色的;肉色的;血红色的
及物动词 vt.
1.染红

Quotes:
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
~Shakespeare, Macbeth
In a night of rain, the ruddy reflections of their lights incarnadine the clouds till the entire city appears to be the prey of a monster conflagration.
~Alvan F. Sanborn, "New York After Paris", The Atlantic, October 1906
The more he scrubbed it, the more it bled.
It made the seas incarnadine, he said.
~Judy Driscoll, "Biddy takes pink gin to the country dance", Hecate, May 1, 1993

Origin:
From Italian incarnatino, which came from the Latin incarnato, something incarnate, made flesh, from in + caro, carn-, "flesh." It is related to carnation, etymologically the flesh-colored flower; incarnate, "in the flesh; made flesh"; and carnal, "pertaining to the body or its appetites."