An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CERISE
red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
(adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
cerise, cherry, cherry red
(noun) a red the color of ripe cherries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cerise (countable and uncountable, plural cerises)
A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Adjective
cerise (comparative more cerise, superlative most cerise)
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Source: Wiktionary
Ce*rise", a. Etym: [F., a cherry. See Cherry.]
Definition: Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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