cerise.

Having a vivid cherry-red color, sometimes with a pinkish cast.

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Words that belong together

• cerise silk
• a cerise ribbon

On the page

A cerise ribbon marked the page she had refused to discuss.

The cerise silk stood out against the mourning clothes.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.