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Cherry red   /tʃˈɛri rɛd/   Listen
Cherry red

noun
1.
A red the color of ripe cherries.  Synonyms: cerise, cherry.






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"Cherry red" Quotes from Famous Books



... light sparkled in her blue eyes; her golden hair was simply arranged over temples and brows beautifully formed. The color of her face was like a delicate peach, white with a blending of red. Her nose was of Grecian type, mouth firmly chiseled and of medium size, while the cherry red lips when parted showed two rows of pearl-like teeth. Her chin was pear-shaped, and revealed decision of character. Her whole appearance gave one the impression of intelligence, purity, and benevolence. She was of medium height, and her figure would have served as a model for the ...
— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick

... now in perfect silence, during which a fiery look on the topmost peak of one of the mountains died out slowly into cherry red, and finally became invisible, a few stars twinkling out as the red ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... the time of day, as if that was his only business in life. If the sun's light lay across his red stomach it was 9 o'clock, if it glistened on his cocked hat it was noon, and if it soberly lighted up the cherry red tomato on his side, it was 6 o'clock. "Sir," he seemed to say, "I have not been always as you see me. I have seen the day when I roosted on the highest shelf in the family grocery, and when I was dusted daily by well dressed clerks—if ...
— Observations of a Retired Veteran • Henry C. Tinsley

... Blue as the summer skies, Nor lips of cherry red, On kisses to be fed; No, it's not for these I care, Miss ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles

... hydrogen is far higher and the marsh gas or methane lower in the Van Steenbergh than in the Lowe process, this being due to the sharper cracking that takes place in the short column of cherry red coke, as compared with the lower temperature employed for a longer space of time in the Lowe superheater. Next we notice a difference of 10 per cent. in the carbon monoxide, which is greatly reduced in the Steenbergh ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Cherry red" :   redness, red



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