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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCARLET , a vivid, See also:

bright red See also:colour, somewhat .inclined to See also:orange. The word appears in most See also:European See also:languages; cf. Ger. Scharlach, Swed. skarlakan, Ital. scarlatto, &c.; the See also:English See also:form is an See also:adaptation of the O. Fr. escarlate, mod. ecarlate. The origin of these is to be found in the See also:Persian saglan, meaning " broad-See also:cloth." There are various forms, sagaldt, sigalat, suglat; this cloth was chiefly used for dresses, flags, large tents and trappings, and was frequently scarlet in colour, and hence its name became applied to the colour.

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