in botany. See Caryophyllus.

Carnation-colour, among painters, is understood of all the parts of a picture, in general, which represent flesh, or which are naked and without drapery.

In colouring for flesh, there is so great a variety, that it is hard to lay down any general rules for instruction therein; neither are there any regarded by those who have acquired a skill this way: The various colouring for carnations, may be easily produced, by taking more or less red, blue, yellow, or bistre, whether for the first colouring, or for the finishing: The colour for women should be bluish, for children a little red, both fresh and gay; and for the men it should incline to yellow, especially if they are old.