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red-cheeked, a.
Having red cheeks. Also transf., esp. of apples.
1602Marston Antonio's Revenge v. iv. sig. K1 Red cheekt Bacchus. 1606Sir G. Goosecappe i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 5 Here's a red cheeckt apple to take him up with. 1611W. Barksted Hiren (1876) 100 The red-cheek't morning opens now her gate. 1664Evelyn Pomona 26 Red-cheek'd and Red-strak'd Musts of several kinds. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iv. Song xi, Red-cheek'd ye compleatly ripe appear. 1764G. Edwards Glean. Nat. Hist. iii. 258 The Red-cheeked Wood-pecker. 1786Burns Halloween xxi, She gies the Herd a pickle nits An' twa red cheeket apples. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. II. xxxvii. 254 Pratt, a red-cheeked man. 1923E. O'Neill Anna Christie i. 7 He is a boyish, red-cheeked, rather good-looking young fellow of twenty or so. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 3/1 From the car he waved goodbye to her. Red-cheeked, in her felt shoes, one hand clutching her dress at the neck, she waved back. |