coquelicot

Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).

coquelicot (countable and uncountable, plural coquelicots)

1. A reddish-orange colour; poppy
   • 1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK →ISBN

     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.

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

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

   coquelicot colour:  

coquelicot (comparative more coquelicot, superlative most coquelicot)

1. Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.
   • 1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag →ISBN

     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.

Variant of cocorico (“cock's cry”), from a similarity to a rooster's crest.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kli.ko/

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• Rhymes: -o

coquelicot m (plural coquelicots)

1. poppy, corn poppy, red poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

• “coquelicot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

coquelicot m (plural coquelicots)

1. (Guernsey) poppy

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