/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Incarnadine (To)
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To make red. (Latin, incarnātus color, carnation).
“No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous sea incarnadine,
Making the green—one red.”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.