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nacarat

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nacarat (countable and uncountable, plural nacarats)

  1. (now rare) A shade of bright red-orange.
    nacarat:  
  2. Linens and cloths dyed such a shade.

See also

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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From Spanish nacarado, from nácar (“nacre”).

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /na.ka.ʁa/

Noun

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nacarat m (plural nacarats)

  1. nacarat, orange-red
    • 1927, Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé:
      La mollesse de sa pose […] contrastait avec l'éclat merveilleux de sa robe Empire en une soierie nacarat devant laquelle les plus rouges fuchsias eussent pâli […] .
      The softness of her pose contrasted with the marvellous radiance of her Empire dress, in a nacarat silk before which the reddest fuchsias would have paled.

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