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Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: carmin, from Medieval Latin carminium, from Arabic qirmiz insect from which red color is obtained + Latin minium ( MINIATURE2)

carmine

 noun
     
Related topics: Colours
car‧mine [uncountable] literary
CC a dark red colour
—carmine adjective
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