Of a crimson or flesh-pink color; to make red or crimson.
From Italian 'incarnadino' (flesh-colored), from 'incarnato' (incarnate). Shakespeare transformed it into a verb in Macbeth: 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Making the green one red?'
Shakespeare took a quiet Italian word for 'pinkish' and turned it into something TERRIFYING in Macbeth — Macbeth's bloody hands turning the entire ocean red! One playwright changed a word's destiny forever! 🩸🌊
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