Why are they called that? My friend and I speculated it means "the carnage of nations." Is this true?
Carnations.....?
1538, either a corruption of coronation (q.v.) from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals; or for its pinkness from M.Fr. carnation "person's color or complexion," probably from It. carnagione "flesh color," from L.L. carnationem (nom. carnatio) "fleshiness," from L. caro "flesh."
Reply:sounds right to me
Reply:Carnation from latin meaning fleshlikeness, hence flesh-color.
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