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  • adjective of a color tinged with rose

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Examples

  • Currently, she was working on a major campaign to get Asian women out of rose-tinged foundation, to open themselves up to the untapped potential—the actual brilliance!

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • In shocking silence, the island crashed into the wall of cloud, and the golden sunlight faded to a rose-tinged dusk.

    Tin 2010

  • Currently, she was working on a major campaign to get Asian women out of rose-tinged foundation, to open themselves up to the untapped potential—the actual brilliance!

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Two thirds of Lord Phillips' speech was very good indeed, a handy introduction to English law, if a little rose-tinged.

    Lord Chief Justice supports the Williams nonsense 2008

  • Her maidenly form, in its rose-tinged whiteness, was visible through her shift in the taper light, as dazzling as some silver statue behind its gauze covering.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • Watching the chisel bite into the rose-tinged wood, Julia tried unsuccessfully to stop her mind crowding with the overwhelming myriad of ethical questions that always swirled around her research.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • This evening there was no bright sunset: west and east were one cloud; no summer night-mist, blue, yet rose-tinged, softened the distance; a clammy fog from the marshes crept grey round Villette.

    Villette 2003

  • The base of each pillar was a polished rose-tinged stone, so smooth that it shimmered in the light from the open door.

    The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • In shocking silence, the island crashed into the wall of cloud, and the golden sunlight faded to a rose-tinged dusk.

    The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

  • "O Lord, how wondrous are Thy works," she chanted to herself softly, as she gazed, awe-stricken, at the loveliness of the rose-tinged foam on the fruit-trees, and her whole being was thrilled with gratitude for the beauty of earth.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

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