high color vs scarlet

high color

noun
  • a strong color 

  • a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face 

  • graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors 

scarlet

noun
  • A brilliant red colour tinged with orange. 

  • Cloth of a scarlet color. 

verb
  • To dye or tinge (something) with scarlet. 

adj
  • Sinful or whorish. 

  • Blushing; embarrassed or mortified. 

  • Of a bright red colour. 

How often have the words high color and scarlet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )