poppy red

poppy(def 4).

Origin of poppy red

First recorded in 1825–35

Her eyes flamed and her cheeks grew hotter and deeper in tint until they were poppy-red.

A True Friend |Adeline Sergeant
They were seated cross-legged in a semicircle, and one of them was thumbing tobacco into the bowl of a poppy-red pipe.

IT and Other Stories |Gouverneur Morris
Her cheeks were poppy-red, her eyes sparkled with the mere joy of living.

The Woman Beautiful |Helen Follett Stevans
The garden of death was a riot of colour, green, crimson, heliotrope and poppy-red.

The Red Horizon |Patrick MacGill

In the porch a white-headed woman, in a gold-edged blue kerchief and poppy-red skirt, was holding a dame-school.

Spanish Highways and Byways |Katharine Lee Bates