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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--incarnadine incarnadine (in-KAHR-nuh-dyn) adjective: Flesh-colored; blood-red. noun: An incarnadine color. verb tr.: To make incarnadine. [Via French and Italian from Latin caro, (flesh). Ultimately from Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words such as skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, and scrape.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "They wait outside the temple, on steps incarnadine with ministerial sacrifice." Simon Jenkins; It's the Voters Wot Win It; The Times (London, UK); Mar 19, 1997. This week's theme: words for colors. X-Bonus Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

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