- of a brilliant red colour猩红的, 鲜红的：
a mass of scarlet berries.
许多鲜红的浆果。
mass noun
1- a brilliant red colour猩红, 鲜红：
papers lettered in scarlet and black.
用红色和黑色字母书写的文件。
1.1
- clothes or material of this colour鲜红色衣服（或衣料）。
词源
Middle English (originally denoting any brightly coloured cloth)： shortening of Old French escarlate, from medieval Latin scarlata, via Arabic and medieval Greek from late Latin sigillatus 'decorated with small images', from sigillum 'small image'.