old rose

Historical Examples

• Thyme, too, went the colour of the old-rose curtain behind which she sat.

  Fraternity

  John Galsworthy

• She wore the old-rose dressing-gown that Leonard had given Annie, and, with a little colour in her face, was quite young again.

  Sons and Lovers

  David Herbert Lawrence

• That afternoon the sun, a vast globe of molten red, sank through an old-rose sky, which slowly changed to a faint golden green.

  Wild Folk

  Samuel Scoville

• Marjorie peered thoughtfully at her array of gowns and selected a half-fitted negligee of old-rose silk.

  Marjorie Dean College Freshman

  Pauline Lester

• There are blues, and violets, and old-rose tones, and a certain bloom in it that these artists never seem to give.

  Venice

  Dorothy Menpes