Definition of Scarlet

Scarlet

A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.

Cloth of a scarlet color.

Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.

To dye or tinge with scarlet.

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Scarlet Quotations

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire Belloc

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
Ben Jonson

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
Pierre Loti

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
Clementine Paddleford

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver

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Scarlet Translations

scarlet in German is Scharlach
scarlet in Italian is scarlattina

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