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rose-coloured

British  

adjective

  1. of the colour rose; rosy

  2. See rose-tinted

  3. to view in an excessively optimistic light

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“They see me as this starry-eyed, rose-coloured glasses kinda girl; the ‘Golden Hour’ girl.

From Washington Post Sep. 10, 2021

“Annie in snow white garments, pale rose-coloured veil, and wreath of dewy half blown buds was as fair a Morning as ever dawned in Ferndale.”

From New York Times Jun. 25, 2020

I found smoked cod’s roe at the fishmonger’s this week: two rose-coloured lobes which I processed into a cream with olive oil, garlic, lemon and a slice of soaked bread.

From The Guardian Aug. 20, 2017

Justin Salinger – topknot tied with a rose-coloured ribbon and an insufficiently exploited ability to produce flames from nothing – is the "real fairy" overseeing the proceedings.

From The Guardian Dec. 5, 2010

The voyage began under the most rose-coloured anticipations of brilliant success.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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