alizarine red

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   a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye

   SynonymsTurkey red

   Broaderred

Questions about alizarine red

What does alizarine red mean?

alizarine red means "a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye".

What is another word for alizarine red?

Close synonyms include Turkey red. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alizarine red a common word?

alizarine red is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.