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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

At the far side of the cavern, a huge pile of rose-coloured stones caught the sunlight.

From The Guardian Sep. 17, 2019

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

The morning broke in uncommon splendour, and the whole landscape lay bathed in a rose-coloured flush, whose exquisite tints recalled the immortal beauties of Claude Lorraine.

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 Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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