scarlet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.

   Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.

2. 2
   noun

   Cloth of a scarlet color.

   All her household are clothed with scarlet.

3. 3
   adj

   Of a bright red colour.

   Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

4. 4
   adj

   Sinful or whorish.

   a scarlet woman

5. 5
   adj

   Blushing; embarrassed or mortified.

   He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.

6. 6
   verb

   To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet.

   Forbeare; the aſhy paleneſſe of my cheeke / Is ſcarletted in ruddy flakes of vvrath: […]

7. 7
   name

   A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.

   It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.

8. 8
   adj

   of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange)

Etymology

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlātum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would b…