blush-rose

The Venetian houses that line its waterfront are painted in sugary shades with contrasting doors and windows – blush-rose and green, lilac and pink, orange and red – all lit up like a twinkling rainbow at night.

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They range over every variety of tint of red, from the palest blush-rose to the deepest crimson, and from the most brilliant pink to the dullest grenat shade.

The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech

His dark eyes, in vague, alcoholic meditation, sought the distant peaks stained with the blush-rose of sunset.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

Her complexion was remarkably transparent, with a soft, but often heightening tinge of the sweet blush-rose upon her cheeks, that imparted a peculiar brilliancy to her clear blue eyes.

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

She turned back hesitatingly, looking all at once absurdly young and a little frightened -- this tall and stately Penelope -- while a faint blush-rose colour ran swiftly up beneath the pallor of her skin, and her eyes -- those nice, humorous brown eyes of hers that always looked the world so kindly and honestly in the face -- held the troubled shyness of a little child.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

And cheeks like a blush-rose for bloominess -- well, I'm a gent, but, yah-hah!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various

He was busy with a description of the last spring flower show, and how the Duke of Cheltenham's auriculas were by no means equal to those of Major Strickland, when Janet gave a little start as though a gnat had stung her, and bent to smell a sweet blush-rose, whose tints were rivalled by the sudden delicate glow that flushed her cheek.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Various

Well, let us say a blush-rose, but damnably run to seed, like the rest of us.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

When Daniel's mother had come to the house as a bride she had planted under a window a blush-rose bush, but always the blush-roses were few and covered with insects.

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

Stella's delicate face was flushed, but it was the exquisite flush of a blush-rose.

The Lamp in the Desert 1910