Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat pink.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat pink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat pink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
pink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a light shade of red
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mt. Dawson described as pinkish limestone, with a wedge of dark rock; this very doubtful!
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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As I gazed at it I recalled the pinkish-yellow butterfly still under its glass in my museum; it had remained there in the same spot, and had preserved its fresh bright hues during the time that I had sailed all round the globe.
The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886
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Mr. Mandelli has sent me many more eggs of this species, mostly deep chocolate-purple, but here and there an egg somewhat paler, what might be called a pinkish chocolate.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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Another advised that Schary had 'pinkish' tendencies but that he did not believe that Schary could be classified as one of the more dangerous figures in the film colony.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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I layer it with an ESSIE red that is kind of pinkish, and they blend for a perfect fire-engine color.
Friday Miscellanea: Polls, Tags, Prizes, Winners, etc Marina Geigert 2008
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‘There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins’ heads.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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` There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins 'heads.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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'There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.
The Time Machine 1906
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There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins heads.
Chapter 4 Herbert George 1898
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` There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins 'heads.
The Time Machine Herbert George 1895
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