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I try to be accurate about the number of L's in the source text, but I have difficulty reading combinations of lowercase i and l accurately in sans-serif fonts (also why 'Philip' versus 'Phillip' is hard for me). At any rate, many of the double L versions here appear like that in the source. Dictionary checking seems to indicate that the single L is preferred in US English, but...


In the splendor of vermillion dusk - Sue Budin "Sunset Over K Mart"

O'erlaid with vermilion, and blazoned with gold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

A beggar's scuffed vermilion - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

Rare wisardry in characters vermilion - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

Dreaming of vermillion sunsets - John Gould Fletcher "A Woman Standing by a Gate with an Umbrella"

Praising the violet and vermilion - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Their bubbly lush vermillion - Louise Imogen Guiney "Knights of Weather"

Kindled with vermillion dew - Jami "Salaman and Absal: Absal Tempts Salaman" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

I've written my name in vermilion so you won't forget - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

The clangor of billions of vermilion trumpets - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson

Whatever vermilion myth flies - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Created the vermilion and the statues - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Nine gates to the vermilion city - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Scrawling vermillion signatures - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Clothespinned across a buzzing canvas of vermillion - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


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