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prettygoodwordcerise (suh-REES, suh-REEZ) - n., a moderate to deep purplish red.
Cherry-red, originally, with the modern color having a little more pink in it. Adopted in 1858 from French cerise, cherry (in the form rouge-cerise, cherry-red), from Old French still cerise, from conjectural Vulgar Latin form *ceresia or *ceresium, from Latin cerasum, from Greek kerásion, still meaning cherry, from kerasos, cherry tree, of unknown origin but suspected from a language of Asia Minor. English cherry comes from the same root, via the Anglo-Norman form cherise.
---L.
Cherry-red, originally, with the modern color having a little more pink in it. Adopted in 1858 from French cerise, cherry (in the form rouge-cerise, cherry-red), from Old French still cerise, from conjectural Vulgar Latin form *ceresia or *ceresium, from Latin cerasum, from Greek kerásion, still meaning cherry, from kerasos, cherry tree, of unknown origin but suspected from a language of Asia Minor. English cherry comes from the same root, via the Anglo-Norman form cherise.
---L.
