écarlate

Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), via Persian سقرلاط‎ (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط‎ (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”) from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum.

• IPA^(key): /e.kaʁ.lat/

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écarlate (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet

écarlate f (plural écarlates)

1. scarlet (color)

• “écarlate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• écartela
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