Translation of "Vermeil" in English

Des camarades officiers surnommaient Ney «l'infatigable»… ses hommes préféraient «le Rougeaud», le vermeil

Fellow officers nicknamed Ney ‘the Indefatigable’… his men preferred ‘le Rougeaud’, the ruddy,

Mon bien-aimé est frais et vermeil, il se reconnait entre dix mille.

- My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
- My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.

Tel un affreux serpent, qui, nourri de poison, / sous la terre dormait dans la froide saison, / tout à coup reparaît, rayonnant de jeunesse, / s'étale avec orgueil, se roule, se redresse, / darde un triple aiguillon, et de son corps vermeil / allume les couleurs aux rayons du soleil.

As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.