[Fr.; the name of the Red Poppy, and hence of its color.] The color of the common Red Poppy, a brilliant red with an admixture of orange. Also attrib. or as adj.
1795. Hull Advertiser, 26 Dec., 3/1. Lady Melbourne has introduced the fashion of brown stockings with coquelicot clocks.
1798. Jane Austen, Lett. (1884), I. 177. Coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.
1837. T. Hook, Jack Brag, vi. Directly did there flit before his eyes coquelicot bonnets, striped parasols, buff boots.
1884. Cassell’s Fam. Mag., May, 371/1. The fashionable Coquelicot, or poppy shade.
