cerise

«cerise» in Mova's school dictionary: A bright deep pinkish-red colour, like cherries — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (cerise); noun (cerise, uncountable — the colour)

meaning for a pupil

A bright deep pinkish-red colour, like cherries. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in art lessons and in descriptions of clothes, flowers and paint. It tells the reader the exact shade: brighter and pinker than plain red. It comes from the French word for cherry.

examples

• She wore a cerise dress to the party. tree →
• The cerise flowers stood out against the green leaves. tree →
• We mixed red and a little white and blue to get cerise. tree →
• Cerise is a bright cherry-pink colour. tree →
• His bike was painted cerise and silver. tree →
• The sunset turned the clouds cerise. tree →

note

Say «suh-REEZ». No plural as a colour. It comes from French «cerise» (cherry), but in English it means only the colour.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cerise» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.