sanguine

     

Sanguine refers to a redish, often tending to brown, color of chalk used in drawing. The word may also refer to a drawing done in sanguine.

Trivia about sanguine

  • From the Latin word for blood, it means blood-colored or cheerfully optimistic
  • Cheerful, or bloody(8)
  • This adjective means both "bloody" & "cheerfully optimistic"