Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Incarnadine

(To). To make red. (Latin, incarnatus color, carnation).

No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous sea incarnadine,
Making the green—one red.

Shakespeare: Macbeth, ii. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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