coquelicot
noun
- reddish-orange color
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑkləˌkoʊ/ / /ˈkoʊk-/ / /-lɪ-/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree French coquelicotbor. English coquelicot Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).
- Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.
“I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree French coquelicotbor. English coquelicot Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).
- A reddish-orange colour; poppy.
“It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.”
“'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'”