/skahr"lit/ , n.
1. a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
2. cloth or clothing of this color.
adj.
3. of the color scarlet.
4. flagrantly offensive: Their sins were scarlet.
[ 1200-50; ME escarlate scarlata, scarletum, perh. saqirlat, siqillat sigillátos sigillatus decorated with patterns in relief; see SIGILLATE ]