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Cherry-red   /tʃˈɛri-rɛd/   Listen
Cherry-red

adjective
1.
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.  Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet.






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"Cherry-red" Quotes from Famous Books



... o'clock, Deimos, one of the small twin moons of Mars, swung up overhead, washing the desert with a pale cold light. By morning, when the cherry-red sun broke the line of the horizon, Tom estimated that they had ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell

... ends of grass from the fire, blowing on them to keep them cherry-red, and inserted one after another into the open spear-wound. I could not cry out, because of the man sitting on my face, but I could bite. And to the everlasting glory of the man—Ali bin Yema, his name was—be it written that he neither spoke nor moved a muscle, although my front ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... bird, though it seemed to mock several of them. There were no especial words or rhymes, but the music thrilled him. He strode upward. Out of a leafy bower peered a face, child or woman, he could not tell at first, a crown of light, loose curling hair and two dark, soft merry eyes, a cherry-red mouth and dimpled chin. ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas



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