The word of the day is incarnadine:
1. blood-red; crimson.
2. flesh-colored; pale pink.
Middle French, feminine of incarnadin flesh-colored < Italian incarnatino, equivalent to incarnat (o) made flesh (dictionary.com)
"General Ludovic had effected many momentous decisions on the battlefield, but none left so deep or incarnadine a mark on his name or history as the carnage at Bluttenbad."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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