shade of red
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4.2
- noun
:
matiz de rojo
- His face turned an even darker shade of red.
- turned a deep shade of red
- deep shade of red
- various shades of red
Examples
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Her makeup was too emphatically applied; her lips were an odd shade of red.
Fiction book (1994) -
Geordi had assumed that all the Milgian would be the same blue shade as the captain, but some were pale yellow, and a few were various shades of red.
Fiction book (1992) -
Nothing but rocks and sand and every shade of red the human eye could register.
Fiction book (1999) -
The toenails had just been painted a shade of red called "Passion Juice" and were not entirely dry.
Fiction book (1999) -
I wore a white eyelet dress with a ribbon sash woven of three deepening shades of red velvet to the country club dance.
Fiction book (1992) -
She had inherited the wild curls from her mother; only her mother had gloried in having an untamable mane of hair, bringing even more attention to it by coloring it every shade of red imaginable.
Fiction book (1999) -
After she made that embarrassing mistake, her face turned a deep shade of red.
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He felt a wave of embarrassment wash over him, leaving him with a bright shade of red on his cheeks.
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When she realized everyone was watching her, a subtle shade of red crept across her face.
Synonyms
11
3.7
Skin becomes red and often painful after injury or irritation
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1.0
A deep red color that is not bright
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3.1
A pink or red color in the cheeks showing good health and happiness
A slight red color on something like skin or sky
A red color with a little purple in it
Antonyms
How Embarrassed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'shade of red' is directly compositional: 'shade' means a nuance or degree of color and 'red' names the color, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a degree of redness. In context this straightforward color-based meaning extends naturally to blushing/embarrassment, a common and cross-linguistically transparent metaphor.
Etymology
Shade of red comes from the simple picture of colour when a face turns red. As someone becomes more embarrassed, their face goes through darker shades of red, so the phrase describes how much someone is 'embarrassed'.