Definitions for vermeil

vermeil ver·meil

Spelling: [vur-mil, -meyl or especially for 2, ver-mey]
IPA: /ˈvɜr mɪl, -meɪl or especially for 2, vərˈmeɪ/

Vermeil is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in vermeil (eeilmrv).

Definitions for vermeil

noun

  1. vermilion red.
  2. metal, as silver or bronze, that has been gilded.

adjective

  1. of the color vermilion.

Origin of vermeil

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Late Latin vermiculus kermes (insect and dye), Latin: larva, grub; see vermicule

Examples for vermeil

Fauve is always used of what is dark and gloomy, just as vermeil is always applied to what is bright and pleasant.

Mrs. Phox ensorcelled George with her beautiful, silly phace, shadowed with vermeil tinct and trimly pencilled.

Where were the vermeil blooms, the liquid, expressive eyes, the harmonious limbs of Animula?

He marvelled greatly, for he saw her, vermeil and white, as he had known her in life.

vermeil is a liquid which gives lustre and fire to the gold; and makes it resemble or moulu.

The servant interrupted the charitable reflections of Des Esseintes, who received the slice of bread on a plate of vermeil.

Perceval, wandering, sees across a river in fair meadow land a rich castle built of marble, yellow and vermeil.

In 1840, Mademoiselle Malvesin offered to conduct it; her letter to vermeil, and his to her, crossing each other.

The once sweet lips had lost their softness of curve with their vermeil tincture and had fallen into hard repose.

She was richly dressed in a kirtle of vermeil silk, broidered with gold, and her mantle was worth the spoil of a king's castle.

Word Value for vermeil
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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