[syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cerise \Ce*rise"\, a. [F., a cherry. See Cherry.]
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile
fabrics, especially silk.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cerise
adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy,
blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red,
crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
n 1: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry,
cherry red]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cerise":
Titian, Titian-red, bricky, cardinal, carmine, carnation,
carnelian, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, crimson, damask,
ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming,
glowing, gules, hot, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, iron-red,
lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lobster-red, lurid, maroon,
port-wine, puce, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish,
reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric,
rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent,
rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, stammel, tile-red,
vermilion, vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red