envermeil
English
Etymology
en- + vermeil: compare Old French envermeiller.
Verb
envermeil (third-person singular simple present envermeils, present participle envermeiling, simple past and past participle envermeiled)
- (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.
- 1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton
Translations
to colour with vermilion (poetic)
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