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   scarlet

   /ˈskɑːlɪt/

   adjective

   • 1. of a brilliant red colour: "a mass of scarlet berries"

   noun

   • 1. a brilliant red colour: "papers lettered in scarlet and black"
   • ▪ scarlet clothes or material: "silk awnings of brilliant scarlet"

   Word Origin Middle English (originally denoting any brightly coloured cloth): shortening of Old French escarlate, from medieval Latin scarlata, via Arabic and medieval Greek from late Latin sigillatus ‘decorated with small images’, from sigillum ‘small image’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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