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sea pink

British  

noun

  1. another name for thrift

"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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High winds and big waves have turned the sea pink in Somerset.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2024

The downstairs rooms, with their big glass windows that face, variously, the scruffy lawn, citrus trees, sea pink flowers or Mr. Measer’s vegetable patch, impart a trompe l’oeil nature effect, too.

From New York Times May 4, 2021

I took solid comfort in the ferns and in a sea pink that had put out a scared little blossom right where we are sitting.

From The Spanish Chest by Brown, Edna Adelaide

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