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# cerise

«cerise» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bright deep pinkish-red colour, like cherries** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cerise); noun (cerise, uncountable — the colour)

### meaning for a pupil

A bright deep pinkish-red colour, like cherries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in art lessons and in descriptions of clothes, flowers and paint. It tells the reader the exact shade: brighter and pinker than plain red. It comes from the French word for cherry.

### examples

- She wore a cerise dress to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x1)
- The cerise flowers stood out against the green leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x2)
- We mixed red and a little white and blue to get cerise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x3)
- Cerise is a bright cherry-pink colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x4)
- His bike was painted cerise and silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x5)
- The sunset turned the clouds cerise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x6)

### note

Say «suh-REEZ». No plural as a colour. It comes from French «cerise» (cherry), but in English it means only the colour.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cerise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.