Puzzle Description:

I read this phrase in a book. I looked up all three vocabulary word and was amused to find they all meant RED.

#1: Kristen (cachedans) on Nov 24, 2011

"sanguine: hopeful. point of interest, it also means bloody."

I recently googled the phrase and found the book it was from. Aren't search engines amazing?

Nice little puzzle.

I don't think I want to read that book. An author who depends on using a thesaurus to find descriptors that no one is familiar with is just trying to be impressive. On the other hand, the authors who can take common vocabulary words and weave them together into something new, they are the ones worth reading.

It's kind of like putting together pixels of a few common colors and coming up with a beautiful scene like this one. That's what impresses me. :-)

Well one of the perks of knowing another language is that some words are easy, in this case:

"sanguine" "sanguineo" in spanish from blood.
"carmine" "carmin" in spanish, a shade of red.

"carnelian" is just a well known reddish semi-precious stone.

No mystery here for me.

Lovely scene, Brian

I learned from another trivia minded person that solferino is another shade of red (of the purplish-pink variety). He addressed me as "Solferino Saurian."

I'm going to Google right now. Infrapinklizzard...I get it.

Glad I got to do this puzzle as one in the favorites category. And interesting portrayal of the color.

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