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"colors of their trade"
Historical Reference
Act 2,
Scene 3
Lines 112-

 Macbeth imagines red as the color for murderers in myshakespeare's Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3.

In Shakespeare’s day tradesmen wore uniforms of specific colors signifying their trade. Appropriately, Macbeth is imagining red as the color for murderers.