Word: crimsoneers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...probable that we have had a representative color much longer than since 1859; and as the sanguinary magenta has come into existence since that date, it is reasonable to suppose that our former color was, what is now often attributed to us, crimson. On the respective merits of crimson and magenta we may not enlarge now; for how could our paper, named to represent our distinctive outward manifestation, designate itself by the uneuphonious name of "The Crimson"! It would be infinitely worse than "The Dark Blue." So, as the point is settled that the color is to be Magenta...
...crimson glow has faded from the west...
WHERE the crimson glow of sunset...
Your blushes are his crimson flag...
...Upon the crimson blossom of her lips...