in botany. See Dianthus.

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. Titian and Corregio in Italy, and Rubens and Van Dyke in Flanders, excelled in carnations.—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.