rose pink

noun

1. a light pinkish red color.

Other Words From

• rose-pink adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rose pink¹

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

She looked down at the logs—smouldering now and with no more flame of rose-pink and amethyst.

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Every head shows a different colouring: one red as sealing-wax, another rose-pink, a third caput mortuum.

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You remember my telling you about going to see Faust in London the first time I wore the rose-pink satin.

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“Dirty drab and rose-pink, with their silly cancelling contest”—does not that sum up the English drama of the last few years?

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When will philosophy come to our aid and depose this silly rose-pink wax-doll morality?

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