nacarat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre and nagara.

Noun

nacarat (countable and uncountable, plural nacarats)

1. (now rare) A shade of bright red-orange.

   nacarat:  

2. Linens and cloths dyed such a shade.

See also

redsedit

• blood red
• brick red
• burgundy
• cardinal
• carmine
• carnation
• cerise
• cherry
• cherry red
• Chinese red
• cinnabar
• claret
• crimson
• damask
• fire brick
• fire engine red
• flame
• flamingo
• fuchsia
• garnet
• geranium
• gules
• hot pink
• incarnadine
• Indian red
• magenta
• maroon
• misty rose
• nacarat
• oxblood
• pillar-box red
• pink
• Pompeian red
• poppy
• raspberry
• red violet
• rose
• rouge
• ruby
• ruddy
• salmon
• sanguine
• scarlet
• shocking pink
• stammel
• strawberry
• Turkey red
• Venetian red
• vermilion
• vinaceous
• vinous
• violet red
• wine

Further reading

• “nacarat”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Etymology

From Spanish nacarado, from nácar (“nacre”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /na.ka.ʁa/

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Noun

nacarat m (plural nacarats)

1. nacarat, orange-red
   • 1927, Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé:

     La mollesse de sa pose […] contrastait avec l'éclat merveilleux de sa robe Empire en une soierie nacarat devant laquelle les plus rouges fuchsias eussent pâli […] .

     The softness of her pose contrasted with the marvellous radiance of her Empire dress, in a nacarat silk before which the reddest fuchsias would have paled.

References

• “nacarat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012