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old rose

noun

rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.

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Origin of old rose

First recorded in 1880–85

OTHER WORDS FROM old rose

old-rose, adjective

Words nearby old rose

Old Provençal, Old Prussian, Old Red Sandstone, Old Ritualist, old river, old rose, Old Russian, Olds, old saw, Old Saxon, old school
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British Dictionary definitions for old rose

old rose

noun

  1. a greyish-pink colour
  2. (as adjective)old-rose gloves
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