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Vermillion

Town and administrative headquarters of Clay County, southeast South Dakota; population (1990) 10,000. It is situated on the Vermillion River, 37 km/23 mi east of Yankton. It is a processing centre in a farming area that produces dairy items, cantaloupes, tomatoes, and grain. The town was founded in 1859, near the site of Fort Vermillion (1835), an American Fur Company trading post. It is home to the University of South Dakota, founded in 1862 and opened 20 years later.



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Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
At the same time the fever, which for an instant abandoned her, returned to give luster to her eyes, color to her cheeks, and vermillion to her lips.
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And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
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