WOTD: Incarnadine
It’s a pretty word, written and meaning but, I’m at a loss for a sentence to make with it. I’d never heard of it, before today. Learn something new, everyday. ~Vic
Word of the Day
It’s a pretty word, written and meaning but, I’m at a loss for a sentence to make with it. I’d never heard of it, before today. Learn something new, everyday. ~Vic
Word of the Day
Cosmic-Observation 
October 15, 2023 at 6:39 PM
The color of Jill Bidens face after she had to escort old Joe off the stage again. She was incarnadine from the neck up.
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October 15, 2023 at 7:45 PM
LOL! That is great!
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October 16, 2023 at 10:28 AM
It took me a while to come up with that.
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October 17, 2023 at 11:08 AM
Well, it is excellent. You are a writer.
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October 17, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Thank you so much. I will be here all week.
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October 17, 2023 at 5:00 PM
“Try the (Borscht Belt) veal.”
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October 15, 2023 at 7:03 PM
the steak wasn’t medium well done as the incarnadine color belied the temperature the chef thought he cooked. good effort??
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October 15, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Excellent!
Good to hear from you. No texts?
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October 15, 2023 at 9:08 PM
How about the color of my face when I crashed again on the broken elbow last weekend
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October 15, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Oh, dear. I am so sorry, Brian. You are the walking wounded.
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October 15, 2023 at 10:21 PM
I always use this…the student asked the teacher how to spell incarnadine… lol can’t go wrong with that one.
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October 15, 2023 at 10:37 PM
LOL! That works.
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October 15, 2023 at 10:55 PM
It always does!!!! lol It’s universal
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October 15, 2023 at 10:56 PM
😄
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October 16, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Never heard of it before. In situations like this one my good excuse is I’m not a native English speaker! 🙂
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October 16, 2023 at 1:08 AM
Yeah. It is new to me but, I can’t claim “lost in translation.”
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October 16, 2023 at 7:12 PM
My try “The setting sun painted the sky a deep incarnadine hue, casting a stunning display of reds and oranges across the horizon.”
I really struggled with McBeth’s usage of it …
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October 17, 2023 at 11:16 AM
The best comments come from the writers. You and Phil…
I take it that MacBeth used that very word?
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October 18, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Macbeth talks about the blood on his hands in Act 2, Scene 2. He says, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” Macbeth means that there is not enough water in the sea to cleanse his hands, but instead the blood on them will stain the ocean red.
It was in my Junior Year that I was supposed to master MacBeth. It was a disaster.
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October 18, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Ha. Yeah. Shakespeare is a little tough to digest, particularly for high school…unless one has actors for parents. My senior English class struggled with staying awake.
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October 17, 2023 at 8:34 AM
Is it barium or strontium that leaves behind the incarnadine ‘clouds’ in the sky?
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October 17, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Ha! I’d say strontium. Barium is white. I’ve had a medical procedure with barium.
Incarnadine clouds…I like that. Well done!
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October 17, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Top of my head when it’s sunny….
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October 17, 2023 at 8:31 PM
LOL!
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October 17, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Is this a corruption of carmine? I’ve been painting thirty years and worked as a colour chemist and have never heard of it before. There is so much corruption of the language these days where misuse becomes an accepted term. My bette nior is epicentre to describe the precise centre when it is anything but, and could be kilometers away from the centre. It is the point on the surface closest to the centre – say in an earthquake, but its much sexier to use epicentre
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October 17, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Having painted, myself, I am aware of carmine…comes from beatles, yes? I really don’t know…can only guess. The word reaches back to the 1500s and was used as a reference to the color of meat…as best as I can tell.
I get the corruption of language but, at the same time, language does evolve. Each generation crafts their own “meanings to things.” The woke crap is a good example.
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October 18, 2023 at 3:46 AM
So they found a use for Ringo did they, Vic? I think cochineals are aphids, not beetles.
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October 18, 2023 at 12:59 PM
LOL! Oops! Wrong “beetle.”
Ok. Insect. I just looked it up. I started private art training when I was 11. Somewhere along the way, someone mentioned beetles in coloring paints. It stuck with me.
Eh. I am getting old and I have a head full of useless, whacked trivia.
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October 24, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Here’s my kick at the can: She painted boldly, directly, splashing incarnadine, aquamarine, and cyan in colourful and characteristic abandon.
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October 24, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Awesome! Thank you! ❤️
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