Sanguine Sanguine

Sanguine - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Beaming, Bloody, Bright

Sanguine can refer to:

  • Sanguine personality - optimistic, cheerful, even-tempered, confident, rational, popular, fun-loving
  • Sanguine is the temperament of blood - one of the four humours
  • Sanguine is a tincture in heraldry, otherwise one of the "staynard colours".
  • Sanguine was also an ELF antenna of the US Navy; see communication with submarines, Sanguine (transmitter)
  • Sanguine - a drawing done in reddish chalk, particularly an Old Master drawing.
  • Sanguine - a red earth pigment used in the manufacture of artists chalks or pastels. First used by Renaissance artists. Still used by manufacturers such as Conté; to name reddish-brown chalks, coloured with Iron Oxide.

See also: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic.

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