Vermeil

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late Middle English (in vermeil (sense 2)): from Old French (see vermilion).


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From Middle English vermayle, from Old French vermeil(“vermilion”), from Latin vermiculus(“little worm”), from vermis(“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye.


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vermeil (adj.)

"bright-red," late 14c., from Anglo-French and Old French vermail, vermeil "bright-red, scarlet, crimson" (11c. in Old French), from Late Latin vermiculus "a little worm," specifically, the cochineal insect from which crimson dyes were obtained (compare kermes), in classical Latin, "larva of an insect, grub, maggot," diminutive of vermis "worm" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend"). As a noun in English from 1590s.