Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters
bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh.
One of the four temperaments, associated with the element of air The sanguine personality is individualistic, relates to the world using the intellect and likely to disconnect from the emotions, freedom-loving, friendly, communicative, cool and dry See also Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic
inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"
If you are sanguine about something, you are cheerful and confident that things will happen in the way you want them to. He's remarkably sanguine about the problems involved. happy and hopeful about the future = optimistic sanguine about (sanguin, from sanguineus, from sanguis )
[murrey ] One of the nine colours used by foreign heralds in escutcheons It is expressed by lines of vert and purpure crossed, that is, diagonals from right to left crossing diagonals from left to right (See Tenne ) Tenné and Sanguine are not used by English heralds (See Heralds )