What is cerise?
Q: What is cerise?
A: Cerise is a rose-red color.
Q: Where does the name cerise come from?
A: The name cerise comes from the French word meaning cherry.
Q: What is the origin of the word "cherry"?
A: The word "cherry" itself comes from the Norman cherise.
Q: When was cerise first recorded as a color name in English?
A: Cerise was first recorded as a color name in English in 1858, according to Maerz and Paul in their Dictionary of Color.
Q: What was Hollywood cerise?
A: Hollywood cerise was a colored pencil from a popular brand, Venus Paradise, in the 1950s.
Q: What was the color known as before being renamed "Hollywood cerise"?
A: Before being renamed "Hollywood cerise" in the 1940s, the color had before that, since 1922, been known simply as Hollywood.
Q: Where was cerise used as early as 1846?
A: Cerise was used as early as 1846 in a book of crochet patterns.
