Today's Word "incarnadine"
Blood-red
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incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\ (adjective, verb) - 1 : Having a fleshy pink color. 2 : Red; blood-red.
(transitive verb) - To make red or crimson.
"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." -- William Shakespeare, 'Macbeth'
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."
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