nacarat

Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre and nagara.

nacarat (countable and uncountable, plural nacarats)

1. (now rare) A shade of bright red-orange.

   nacarat:  

2. Linens and cloths dyed such a shade.

• “nacarat”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

From Spanish nacarado, from nácar (“nacre”).

IPA^(key): /na.ka.ʁa/

nacarat m (plural nacarats)

1. nacarat, orange-red
   • 1927, Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé:

     La mollesse de sa pose […] contrastait avec l'éclat merveilleux de sa robe Empire en une soierie nacarat devant laquelle les plus rouges fuchsias eussent pâli […] .

     The softness of her pose contrasted with the marvellous radiance of her Empire dress, in a nacarat silk before which the reddest fuchsias would have paled.

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