coquelicot

plural coquelicots

1. countableuncountableA reddish-orange colour; poppy.

   'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'

   2011, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide: The Morland Dynasty, Hachette UK, →ISBN

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   It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.

   1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN

comparative more coquelicot · superlative most coquelicot

1. Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.

   I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.

   1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN