Light pink; = carnation, n.2 1; a pigment or dye of this colour. Obsolete or archaic.

†(a) The colour of human ‘flesh’ or skin; flesh-colour. Obsolete. (b) A light rosy pink, but sometimes used for a deeper crimson colour as in the…

(a) n. a soft, yellowish-pink colour resembling that of a ripe peach; (also) the rose-pink colour of peach blossom; †(b) adj. (with hyphen) = peac…

A delicate pink colour. Also figurative. Now historical.

= maiden's blush, n. 1 (used attributive); also in extended use.

The colour of the flesh (of a ‘white’ human being) as seen through the skin; usually employed to denote a tint composed of ‘a light pink with a…

The name of a colour, a pale purple or grey violet; sometimes, a pale red.

Blush colour; also, a crimson or blood-red colour (see A.).

A colour intermediate between red and white; a pale red, sometimes with a slight purple tinge. Also: an example or variety of something having this…

The rose-pink colour of peach blossom; (Ceramics) a similar shade characteristic of the monochrome glazes on some Chinese porcelain; the glaze…

A shade of pink; = Pompadour pink n. adj.(a) at compounds 2. Also: a fabric of this colour. Now rare.

A pink or light crimson colour like that of a rose. Also figurative: sentimentality, sentimental writing (now rare).

(see quots.).

The quality of resembling a peach in appearance, texture, flavour, etc.; (colloquial) desirability or attractiveness, esp. of appearance.

= maiden's blush, n. 2a.

A pinky colour or tinge.

Having or designating a colour resembling peach blossom. Cf. peach blossom, adj.

= peach colour n. adj. at compounds 2.

a pink dye originally produced from the madder plant, Rubia tinctorum; the colour of this.

The quality or state of being pink; pink colour.

A soft shade of pink originally developed (1757) for use as a ground colour on Sèvres porcelain. Cf. rose Pompadour, n.

elliptical for flesh-colour.

The light brown or yellowish brown colour of an almond kernel. Also: the delicate pink colour of almond blossom.

a greyish-pink colour.

= rose du Barry, n. Cf. Pompadour pink n. adj. at pompadour, n. adj.adv. compounds 2.

Short for salmon-colour n. at compounds 3.

A pink colour or tinge; = pinkiness, n.

A pale pinkish or greyish brown colour resembling that of a mushroom.

Of the colour of the flesh of salmon; a kind of orange-pink. Also in combinations, as salmon-pink, salmon-red, salmon-rose.

A colour or shade of this description, esp. as a shade of face powder. Cf. natural, n.1 14. Now rare.

Any of various colours associated with the sunrise; esp. a yellowish shade of pink.

= sense A. 1b.

A light to medium pink colour.

The colour of magnolia blossom, usually a shade of off-white.