Sentence:  I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this , and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of <WSD>red</WSD> and then had her breathe on the canvas '' , which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies