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How to pronounce vermilion in English?

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Synonyms chinese-red, cinnabar, vermillion
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Synonyms orange red, scarlet
Type of red, redness
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Type of redden

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The other valuable commodities in the paint-box were lapis lazuli and vermilion.
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Tuesday's trip scored limits of vermilion and yellowtail rockfish, plus 2 lings.
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The vermilion darters occur only in Turkey Creek and nowhere else in the world.
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They are usually either unpainted or painted vermilion with a black upper lintel.
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But something tugs at the eye, beyond the maple-leaf scarlet, vermilion and gold.
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Kumar said, referring to the Hindu practice of putting vermilion on the forehead.
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Juan Lomeli of Visalia took jackpot honors with a 6-pound vermilion on Sunday.
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Some great quality vermilion and copper rockfish highlighted the bottomfish catch.
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Vermilion is about 2 hours from Detroit and 50 miles from downtown Cleveland.
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  • Scarlet: a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
  • Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
  • Color vermilion
  • Vermilion, sometimes spelled vermillion, when found naturally occurring, is an opaque orangish red pigment, used since antiquity, originally derived from the powdered mineral cinnabar. Chemically, the pigment is mercuric sulfide, HgS, and like many mercury compounds it is toxic. ...
  • Vermilion is a former provincial electoral district that existed from 1905 to 1921.
  • "Vermilion" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. The song is released as the second single from their third album, ''''.
  • The Vermilion were a band of the Native American Kickapoo, who migrated from the Great Lakes area and the mouth of the Wisconsin River to settle in Southern Illinois. ...
  • A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide; A vivid red or slightly orange colour; A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women; A red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face; Having a brilliant red colour; Having the color of the vermilion dye
  • Mercury(II) sulfide, HgS, a red pigment; also known as cinnabar. (See minium.)