Modena vs. Crimson

Modenanoun

A crimson colour.

Crimsonnoun

A deep, slightly bluish red.

Modenanoun

A certain crimsonlike color.

Crimsonadjective

Having a deep red colour.

Modena

Modena (UK: , US: , Italian: [ˈmɔːdena] (listen); Modenese: Mòdna [ˈmɔdnɐ]; Etruscan: Mutna; Latin: Mutina) is a city and comune (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. A town, and seat of an archbishop, it is known for its car industry since the factories of the famous Italian upper-class sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani and Maserati are, or were, located here and all, except Lamborghini, have headquarters in the city or nearby.

Crimsonadjective

Immodest.

Crimsonverb

(intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.

Crimsonverb

(transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Crimsonnoun

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’; ‘A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.’;

Crimsonadjective

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

‘The blushing poppy with a crimson hue.’;

Crimsonverb

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

‘Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.’;

Crimsonverb

To become crimson; to blush.

‘Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.’;

Crimsonnoun

a deep and vivid red

Crimsonverb

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;

‘The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by’;

Crimsonadjective

having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Crimsonadjective

characterized by violence or bloodshed;

‘writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days’; ‘fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing’; ‘convulsed with red rage’;

Crimsonadjective

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;

‘crimson with fury’; ‘turned red from exertion’; ‘with puffy reddened eyes’; ‘red-faced and violent’; ‘flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment’;

Crimsonadjective

of a rich deep red colour inclining to purple

‘she blushed crimson with embarrassment’;

Crimsonnoun

a rich deep red colour inclining to purple

‘a pair of corduroy trousers in livid crimson, they were horrid to behold’;

Crimsonverb

(of a person's face) become flushed, especially through embarrassment

‘my face crimsoned and my hands began to shake’;

Crimson

Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose.