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DEEP RED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deep red mean?
• DEEP RED (noun)
The noun DEEP RED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DEEP RED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep and vivid red color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("deep red" is a kind of...):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Context examples
Port-wine stains vary in color from fairly pale pink to deep red or purple and in size from a few millimeters to many centimeters in diameter.
(Nevus Flammeus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
We stood so, a long time; long enough for me to see the white marks of my fingers die out of the deep red of his cheek, and leave it a deeper red.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is prepared by heating phthalic anhydride and resorcinol over a zinc catalyst, and it crystallizes as a deep red powder.
(Fluorescein, NCI Thesaurus)
A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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