a. Having the color of ripe red cherries; esp. applied to the color of iron, coal, etc., at a low red heat. Also subst.
1594. J. Dickenson, Arisbas (1878), 59. Cheekes cherrie redde.
1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4250/8. His Hair Cherry-red.
1802. Bournon, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 249. Red hot iron … heated to the degree known by the term cherry red.
1816. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, I. 7. The low red heat called cherry red.
1882. Garden, 30 Sept., 296/3. Good and well tried roses … most beautiful of the cherry reds.
