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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRIMSON , the name of a strong, See also:

bright red See also:colour tinged to a greater or less degree with See also:purple. It is the colour of the dye produced from the dried bodies of the See also:cochineal See also:insect (Coccus cacti). The word, in its earlier forms cremesin, crymysyn, also cramoysin, cf. " cramoisy," the name of a red See also:cloth, is adapted from the Med. See also:Lat. cremesinus for kermesinus or carmesinus, the dye produced from the insect See also:Kermes (Coccus ilicis), Arab. quirmiz, which See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet., 1898) connects with the See also:Sanskrit krimi, cognate with Lat. vermis and Eng. " See also:worm." From the Lat. carminus, a shortened See also:form of carmesinus, comes " See also:carmine " (q.v.).

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