of a brilliant red colour 猩红的,鲜红的 a mass of scarlet berries. 许多鲜红的浆果。
noun
[mass noun]a brilliant red colour 猩红,鲜红 papers lettered in scarlet and black. 用红色和黑色字母书写的文件。 ■clothes or material of this colour 鲜红色衣服(或衣料)
语源
Middle English (originally denoting any brightly coloured cloth): shortening of Old French escarlate, from medieval Latin scarlata, via Arabic and medieval Greek from late Latin sigillatus 'decorated with small images', from sigillum 'small image'