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Coquelicot appears in literature as a vivid, striking red that evokes both natural beauty and playful ornamentation. In some works, its presence is almost sartorial—a lawyer’s wig, for example, is humorously decorated with coquelicot ribbons, lending a touch of ironic flamboyance to the scene [1]. Other authors draw on the color’s botanical roots by linking it directly to the red poppy, even noting its very naming in French and its association with the flower’s brilliant hue [2, 3]. The color further finds its way into costume details, such as a ladies’ poke-bonnet trimmed with coquelicot fabric [4], and is even used in vivid comparisons, like a face described as having the color of coquelicot [5].
  1. Certainly!—Comfort in high life would be as preposterous as a lawyer's bag crammed with truth, or his wig decorated with coquelicot ribbons!
    — from Speed the PloughA Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton
  2. Coch is Welsh for red, and the flaming red poppy or corn cock le, French— coquelicot , was no doubt the symbol of the solar poppy, pope, or pap.
    — from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley
  3. Call to mind the Easter Daisy, the Violet, the Bluebell, the Poppy, or, rather, Coquelicot: the name is the flower itself.
    — from The Double Garden by Maurice Maeterlinck
  4. She retired at once to the ladies' cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings.
    — from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch
  5. Your face is the colour of a coquelicot.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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