Definitions
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- adjective of pink tinged with lavender
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Examples
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It sported a kind of skintight singlet of brilliant scarlet and violet-pink.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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As Johan Rajasinghe stood in his orchid house, admiring the intricate violet-pink blossoms, he remembered that last season he had been trapped by a torrential downpour for half-an-hour while examining the first blooms.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
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The elastic resistance of the line is a "heart-animating strain," only too slight; and sensible is the thrill in it as the ranks of the riverside plants, with their small summit-flower of violet-pink, are swept aside like a long green breaker of flourishing green.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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In springtime, the fat clumps of foliage are topped by the typical violet-pink flower spikes.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Delosperma cooperi began blooming a violet-pink in June and will flower well into August.
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