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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'scarlet' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions scarlet noun  (colour) a bright red, slightly orange, color, colour. <table><tr><td>scarlet colour: &nbsp;</td><td bgcolor=" BE0032" width="80">&nbsp; </td></tr></table> a scarlet-coloured cloth. Translations:  Dutch: scharlaken adjective  (colour) of a bright red colour. sinful or whorish (a scarlet woman). (slang) (Ireland) embarrassed Translations:  Dutch: scharlaken Etymology: :old French escalate, meaning scarlet cloth. If you go further you will discover that scarlet comes from (Pers.) saqirlat "a kind of rich cloth," variant of siqillat "scarlet cloth, rich cloth," of unknown origin (Arabic siqillat "fine cloth" probably is ult. from Persian).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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