Usually means: Bright red pigment from cinnabar.
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  1. vermilion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vermilion: Merriam-Webster
  3. vermilion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vermilion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vermilion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vermilion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vermilion, vermilion: Wordnik
  8. vermilion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vermilion: Wiktionary
  10. vermilion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vermilion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vermilion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vermilion: Dictionary.com
  14. vermilion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Vermilion (disambiguation), Vermilion (song), Vermilion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vermilion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vermilion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vermilion: Rhymezone
  19. Vermilion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vermilion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vermilion: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. vermilion: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vermilion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. vermilion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. vermilion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vermilion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vermilion (color), vermilion: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. vermilion: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vermilion, vermilion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Vermilion: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
noun:  A bright orange-red colour.
noun:  A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
noun:  The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.
noun:  (obsolete) The kermes or cochineal insect.
noun:  (obsolete) The cochineal dye made from this insect.
adjective:  Having a brilliant red colour.
adjective:  Having the color of the vermilion dye.
verb:  (transitive) To color or paint vermilion.

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