color

Crimson

Colors & materials

A deep red color word of kermes, cochineal, and later chemistry. Not scarlet, and not carmine the lake alone.

  • Crimson is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats deep crimson reds among dye speech. A Roman-era dye-color name, not red-ochre as earth pigment and not Tyrian purple as the murex dye already filed.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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