venetian red

Questions about venetian red

What does venetian red mean?

venetian red means "a shade of brown with a tinge of red".

What is another word for venetian red?

Close synonyms include reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, mahogany. 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 venetian red a common word?

venetian 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.