Red Sea

Meaning

1. (A quantity of) blood discharged through the vagina during menstruation.
2. A long, narrow sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; links the Suez Canal with the Arabian Sea.
3. A great quantity of blood.
4. A governorate in eastern Egypt
5. A great quantity of reddish liquid, such as wine.
6. The states of the western and southern United States which consistently vote Republican in presidential elections.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English Red See, Reede See, Rede See, reade sea, from Old English Rēad Sǣ, a calque of Latin Mare Rubrum, itself a calque of Ancient Greek Ἐρυθρᾱ̀ θάλασσα (Eruthrā̀ thálassa); equivalent to red + sea.

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