peach-blow

noun

1. 1. a delicate purplish-pink colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      a peach-blow vase

2. a glaze of this colour on Oriental porcelain

Word History and Origins

Origin of peach-blow¹

C19: from _peach ¹ + _blow ³

Example Sentences

There was no trace of reproachfulness in his manner, as he showed Miss Horne and Miss Hobart the vestments and a little image of the Virgin in peach-blow glaze that he moved caressingly into the sunlight, as a child might fondle reverently a favorite doll.

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Then, realizing the looks that followed the word “boys,” she blushed peach-blow.

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Bathed in a great glare, she sat in her dressing-room facing a long mirror of three panels; decked out en grande toilette, wearing every jewel she possessed, groomed to the finest nuance of perfection; a brilliant and strangely immobile figurine of modern femininity, with bobbed hair like burnished brass, milk-white bosom and arms rising out of a calyx of peach-blow taffeta, jewels stung to iridescent life by that fierce wash of light.

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That combination of sky-blue and peach-blow was always a favorite with your aunt,—French taste, she called it.

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She lingered still a moment longer to ask, with all the deference due a weather prophet of Uncle Watty's reputation, when he thought there would be rain, this being indeed a matter of importance, with the consideration of the planting of the peach-blow peel lying heavy in the back of her mind.

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