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cerise (ser-REES, ser-REEZ) - n., a deep bright pinkish-red.
Used especially to describe the color of fabrics. Literally, cherry-colored, though I think of cherries as more purely red than this shade. Borrowed in 1844 from French cerise, cherry, from Late Latin ceresia, neuter plural of ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek kerasion, cherry.
---L.
Used especially to describe the color of fabrics. Literally, cherry-colored, though I think of cherries as more purely red than this shade. Borrowed in 1844 from French cerise, cherry, from Late Latin ceresia, neuter plural of ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek kerasion, cherry.
---L.
