vermeil

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vermeil

From Middle English vermayle, from Old French vermeil (“vermilion”), from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye. Doublet of vermicule.

vermeil (comparative more vermeil, superlative most vermeil)

(poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed […].
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion‎, Book I, lines 49-51:
  Many and many a verse I hope to write,
  Before the daisies, vermeil rimm’d and white,
  Hide in deep herbage;
(poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  his carriage; demeanor, and venerable behaviour, in a face so young, vermeill, and heart enflaming […].
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
  a lip as vermeil as her own. (IV, xxx)

vermeil (plural vermeils)

(poetic) Vermilion; bright red.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The mortall steele stayed not till it was seene / To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe, / But lightly rased her soft silken skin, / That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe, / Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.
Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	vermaus	vermeille	vermeil
singular	oblique	vermeil	vermeille		vermeille	vermeil
plural	subject	vermeil	vermeilles		vermeil
plural	oblique	vermaus	vermeilles		vermeilles	vermeil

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