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# cerise

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

«cerise» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x1)
- The cerise flowers stood out against the green leaves. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x3)
- Cerise is a bright cherry-pink colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x4)
- His bike was painted cerise and silver. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/#x5)
- The sunset turned the clouds cerise. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cerise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cerise/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cerise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cerise.html) on Mova free.