turkey red

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

   Synonymsalizarine red

   Broaderred

Questions about turkey red

What does turkey red mean?

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

What is another word for turkey red?

Close synonyms include alizarine 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 turkey red a common word?

turkey 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.