Noun: cerise
| Singular | cerise |
| Plural | cerises |
Sample Sentences
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Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise. [1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 67:]
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His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […] [1980, Donald Pavey, Color, page 116:]
Nouns inflected like cerise
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch. See: French Nouns '
cerise', Latin Nouns '
cerasium'.
Verbs referencing "cerise"
Spanish Nouns
cerezo.