Definition of "envermeil" in English

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive, poetic) To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red.

   • 1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss.