envermeil

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ vermeil: compare Old French envermeiller.

Verb

envermeil (third-person singular simple present envermeils, present participle envermeiling, simple past and past participle envermeiled)

1. (obsolete, transitive, poetic) To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red.
   • 1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton

     For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss.

Translations

to colour with vermilion (poetic)

• Russian: окра́сить багря́нцем (okrásitʹ bagrjáncem), подрумя́нить (ru) n (podrumjánitʹ)