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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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