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Rose-pink   Listen
adjective
Rose-pink  adj.  
1.
Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.
2.
Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental. "Rose-pink piety."





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"Rose-pink" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Thames valley on the west side, and of the Medway valley on the east, discloses itself. On a bank in this lane we find a rather rare plant, the long-stalked crane's-bill (Geranium columbinum), its rose-pink flowers standing out like rubies among the green foliage. Pteris aquilina, the common brake or bracken, is very luxuriant here; but we have met with few ferns in the part of Kent which we visited. We were ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes
... wonderfully brought out; the bluish-grey around the poles, the clear yellowish-white light of the light bands, probably belts of white cloud, contrasted signally the hues—varying from deep orange-brown to what was almost crimson or rose-pink on the one hand and bright yellow on the other—of different zones of the so-called dark belts. On the latter, markings and streaks of strange variety suggested, if they failed-to prove, the existence of ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg
... dazzled with color—the intense blue of the sky and the water, the bright yellow of the sand, the dark rich green of the trees, and, looking into the garden below, the flame-scarlet blossoms of the pomegranates, the rose-pink flowers of the oleanders and the cream-white clusters of the limes ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... room walled and ceiled with cedar, and decorated with the bold rose-pink embroideries of Sale and the intricate old needlework of Fez, I looked out over the upper city toward the ...
— In Morocco • Edith Wharton
... her head.] I am not in a mood to-night for silver twilights, or rose-pink dawns. I want to talk business. [Motions to him with her fan to ...
— An Ideal Husband - A Play • Oscar Wilde
... sigh of relief. How cool. How good it smelt. She could see the quiet water of the little harbour through the pine trunks, and the lights coming out in the houses on the other side, and all round her the green dusk was splashed by the rose-pink of the gladioluses in the grass and the white of the ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim


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