maiden's blushn.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪdnzblʌʃ/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdnzˈbləʃ/

Forms: 1500s–1600s maidens blush, 1700s– maiden's blush.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: maiden n., blush n.

Etymology: < the genitive of maiden n. + blush n. Compare attributive use of maiden with blush (maiden n. and adj. Compounds 1b).

1. A delicate pink colour. Also figurative. Now historical.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink

incarnationa1475

carnation?1533

peach colour1573

maiden's blush1598

maiden blush1600

flesh-colour1611

gridelinc1640

incarnadine1661

pinka1669

peach bloom1716

pompadour1761

rose pink1772

salmon-colour1813

orange-pink1820

peachiness1820

maiden rose1827

pinkiness1828

peach-blow1829

peach1831

pink madder1835

flesh-tint1839

pinkness1840

rose du Barry1847

flesh1852

almond1872

ash of roses1872

nymph-pink1872

rose Pompadour1872

salmon1873

pinkishness1874

mushroom1884

salmon-pink1884

naturelle1887

shell-pink1887

sunrise1890

sultan pink1899

mushroom colour1900

sunblush1925

flesh tone1931

magnolia1963

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Fiamma di volto, a blush, or maidens blush colour.

1661 T. Blount Peacham's Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xiv. 156 Of the Signification of Colours... Maidens-blush, [signifieth] Envy.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 226 From which Place rise several many-leav'd Flowers, of a Maiden's-blush.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. iii. 30 It was a time to see a woman redden... From the Maiden's Blush..down to the Crimson Tuscany, the countenance of Oak's acquaintance quickly graduated.

2002 www.maidenfaire.com 2 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Renaissance Colour Name..Maiden's Blush.

a. In full maiden's blush rose. An old rose of the Rosa × alba group with delicate pink flowers. Cf. maiden-blush rose n. at maiden n. and adj. Compounds 1c, blush-rose n. at blush n. and adj. Compounds 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush

summer rosea1456

French rose1538

damask rose?a1547

musk rose1559

province1562

winter rose1577

Austrian brier1590

rose of Provence1597

velvet rose1597

damasine-rose1607

Provence rose1614

blush-rose1629

maiden's blush1648

monthly rose tree1664

Provinsa1678

York and Lancaster rose1688

cinnamon rose1699

muscat rose1707

cabbage rose1727

China-rose1731

old-fashioned rose1773

moss rose1777

swamp rose1785

alba1797

Cherokee rose1804

Macartney rose1811

shepherd's rose1818

multiflora1820

prairie rose1822

Boursault1826

Banksian rose1827

maiden rose1827

moss1829

Noisette1829

seven sisters rose1830

Dundee rambler1834

Banksia rose1835

Chickasaw rose1835

Bourbon1836

climbing rose1836

green rose1837

hybrid China1837

Jaune Desprez1837

Lamarque1837

perpetual1837

pillar rose1837

rambler1837

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rugosa1840

China1844

Manetti1846

Banksian1847

remontant1847

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hybrid perpetual1848

Persian Yellow1848

pole rose1848

monthly1849

tea rose1850

quarter sessions rose1851

Gloire de Dijon1854

Jacqueminot1857

Maréchal Niel1864

primrose1864

jack1867

La France1868

tea1869

Ramanas rose1876

Japanese rose1883

polyantha1883

old rose1885

American Beauty1887

hybrid tea1890

Japan rose1895

roselet1896

floribunda1898

Zéphirine Drouhin1901

Penzance briar1902

Dorothy Perkins1903

sweetheart1905

wichuraiana1907

mermaid1918

species rose1930

sweetheart rose1936

peace1944

shrub rose1948

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cix. 420 The flowers are small single blush Roses, of little or no sent at all.]

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K2 Dispose That Lady-smock, that Pansie, and that Rose Neatly apart; But for Prick-madam, and for Gentle-heart; And soft Maidens-blush, the Bride Makes holy these.

1882 Garden 19 Aug. 168/2 The Maiden's Blush Rose, once so popular, but now seldom met with.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Feb. 28 From another firm, Roses of Yesterday and Today, in California, I ordered Maiden's Blush, a 15th-century shell-pink alba.

b. Any of several varieties of apple, typically with yellow skins flushed or streaked with red; esp. an American variety of cooking apple.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple

appleeOE

malec1384

pome?1435

mele?1440

maiden's blush1803

1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) vi. 99 Maiden's Blush. This is a small Apple, of a dark mahogany-colour next the sun... The taste is austere, and of course this fruit is not fit for the table; but does very well for baking, or for cider.

1859 H. W. Beecher Plain & Pleasant Talk 311 Maiden's blush..—Tree moderately spreading... The fruit large when the tree is not allowed to ripen too large a crop; white, and blush toward the sun; tender, melting, very juicy, decidededly acid.

1944 Chicago Daily News 25 Sept. 13/3 Right now Wealthies or Maiden's Blush are the choice varieties for cooking or pie.

1971 M. W. G. Smith National Apple Reg. U.K. 333/1 Maiden's Blush (1)... Grown in Ireland, Co. Kilkenny... Shape conic; skin pale yellow almost covered with scarlet flush and stripes and russet dots; flesh white often stained red.

1971 M. W. G. Smith National Apple Reg. U.K. 333/1 Maiden's Blush (2)..Shape tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex, ribbed on body; skin pale yellow flushed orange-red with carmine streaks; flesh firm, rather dry, yellowish; flavour insipid.

1998 N.Y. Times 2 June 2/1 Maiden's Blush, an early ripening yellow apple with a bewitching dark-pink patch on the side that receives the most sunlight.

c. Either of two Australian trees with pinkish wood, Sloanea australis (family Elaeocarpaceae), and Euroschinus falcatus (family Anacardiaceae).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian

tallow-tree1704

rata1773

rosewood1779

red mahogany1798

ironbark1799

wild orange1802

red gum1803

rewarewa1817

red cedar1818

black-butted gum1820

Huon pine1820

miro1820

oak1821

horoeka1831

hinau1832

maire1832

totara1832

blackbutt1833

marri1833

raspberry jam tree1833

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puriri1835

tawa1839

hickory1840

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pukatea1841

titoki1842

butterbush1843

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York gum1846

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myall1848

ironheart1859

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flindosa1862

jarrah1866

silky oak1866

teak of New South Wales1866

Tolosa-wood1866

turmeric-tree1866

walking-stick palm1869

tooart1870

queenwood1873

tarairi1873

boree1878

yate1880

axe-breaker1884

bangalay1884

coachwood1884

cudgerie1884

feather-wood1884

forest mahogany1884

maiden's blush1884

swamp mahogany1884

tallow-wood1884

teak of New Zealand1884

wandoo1884

heartwood1885

ivorywood1887

Jimmy Low1887

Burdekin plum1889

corkwood1889

pigeon-berry ash1889

red beech1889

silver beech1889

turnip-wood1891

black bean1895

red bean1895

pinkwood1898

poplar1898

rose mahogany1898

quandong1908

lancewood1910

New Zealand honeysuckle1910

Queensland walnut1919

mahogany gum1944

Australian mahogany1948

1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 54 E[chinocarpus] Australis.—Maiden's Blush.—A beautiful tree, sometimes attaining a height of 150 feet.

1895 J. H. Maiden Notes Commerc. Timbers New S. Wales 25 Maiden's Blush (Echinocarpus australis..), a soft, durable brush timber, useful for turnery..it is of a delicate rosy colour when freshly cut.

1923 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 19 513 The Maiden's Blush (Sloanea australis) is a fairly well-known ‘scrub’ tree. Its common name is somewhat indiscriminately used by bushmen to designate trees with a pink wood.

1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 174/2 It [sc. Euroschinus falcatus] is variously known as pink poplar, ribbonwood, Donnelly's cedar and most generally perhaps as maiden's blush, though this last vernacular is now retained for a very different tree, Sloanea australis.

1985 N. Nicholson & H. Nicholson Austral. Rainforest Plants 59 Maiden's Blush..was named by timber-workers for the colour of its heartwood... The young toothed leaves are of a beautiful pink, another possible reason for the name.

3. A small geometrid moth, Cyclophora punctaria, having pale brownish yellow wings with reddish markings.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > member of genus Ephyra > ephyra punctaria

maiden's blush1829

1775 M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 13 Blush, maiden.]

1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 127 Maiden's blush.

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 73/1 (heading) The Maiden's Blush.—All the wings dull, greyish red, with a redder tinge about the middle of the wing.

1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) iv. 56 The second brood of the Maiden's Blush..has consistently a series of blotches in the distal area of the fore-wings.

4. Australian. A drink consisting of raspberry cordial with either rum or ginger beer, or of port and lemonade.

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the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught

shenchc950

drinkc1000

draughtc1200

beveragec1390

napa1450

potation1479–81

potionc1484

slaker?1518

glut1541

pocill1572

adipson1601

go-down1614

slash1614

gulf1674

libation1751

meridian1771

sinda1774

sling1788

mahogany1791

a shove in the mouth1821

nooner1836

quencher1841

refresh1851

slackener1861

squencher1871

refreshener1888

refresher1922

maiden's blush1941

maiden's water1975

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry.

1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1177/1 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry cordial: Australian.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 116 Maiden's blush (a drink, either of port and lemonade or rum and raspberry).

1970 W. Fearn-Wannan Austral. Folklore 32 Usually in old-time bushmen's meaning, a drink of rum and raspberry is a Barmaid's Blush..also known as a ‘Maiden's Blush’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	maidens blush
释义	maiden's blushn. Brit. /ˈmeɪdnzblʌʃ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdnzˈbləʃ/ Forms: 1500s–1600s maidens blush, 1700s– maiden's blush. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: maiden n., blush n. Etymology: < the genitive of maiden n. + blush n. Compare attributive use of maiden with blush (maiden n. and adj. Compounds 1b). 1. A delicate pink colour. Also figurative. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink incarnationa1475 carnation?1533 peach colour1573 maiden's blush1598 maiden blush1600 flesh-colour1611 gridelinc1640 incarnadine1661 pinka1669 peach bloom1716 pompadour1761 rose pink1772 salmon-colour1813 orange-pink1820 peachiness1820 maiden rose1827 pinkiness1828 peach-blow1829 peach1831 pink madder1835 flesh-tint1839 pinkness1840 rose du Barry1847 flesh1852 almond1872 ash of roses1872 nymph-pink1872 rose Pompadour1872 salmon1873 pinkishness1874 mushroom1884 salmon-pink1884 naturelle1887 shell-pink1887 sunrise1890 sultan pink1899 mushroom colour1900 sunblush1925 flesh tone1931 magnolia1963 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Fiamma di volto, a blush, or maidens blush colour. 1661 T. Blount Peacham's Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xiv. 156 Of the Signification of Colours... Maidens-blush, [signifieth] Envy. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 226 From which Place rise several many-leav'd Flowers, of a Maiden's-blush. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. iii. 30 It was a time to see a woman redden... From the Maiden's Blush..down to the Crimson Tuscany, the countenance of Oak's acquaintance quickly graduated. 2002 www.maidenfaire.com 2 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Renaissance Colour Name..Maiden's Blush. 2. a. In full maiden's blush rose. An old rose of the Rosa × alba group with delicate pink flowers. Cf. maiden-blush rose n. at maiden n. and adj. Compounds 1c, blush-rose n. at blush n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush summer rosea1456 French rose1538 damask rose?a1547 musk rose1559 province1562 winter rose1577 Austrian brier1590 rose of Provence1597 velvet rose1597 damasine-rose1607 Provence rose1614 blush-rose1629 maiden's blush1648 monthly rose tree1664 Provinsa1678 York and Lancaster rose1688 cinnamon rose1699 muscat rose1707 cabbage rose1727 China-rose1731 old-fashioned rose1773 moss rose1777 swamp rose1785 alba1797 Cherokee rose1804 Macartney rose1811 shepherd's rose1818 multiflora1820 prairie rose1822 Boursault1826 Banksian rose1827 maiden rose1827 moss1829 Noisette1829 seven sisters rose1830 Dundee rambler1834 Banksia rose1835 Chickasaw rose1835 Bourbon1836 climbing rose1836 green rose1837 hybrid China1837 Jaune Desprez1837 Lamarque1837 perpetual1837 pillar rose1837 rambler1837 wax rose1837 rugosa1840 China1844 Manetti1846 Banksian1847 remontant1847 gallica1848 hybrid perpetual1848 Persian Yellow1848 pole rose1848 monthly1849 tea rose1850 quarter sessions rose1851 Gloire de Dijon1854 Jacqueminot1857 Maréchal Niel1864 primrose1864 jack1867 La France1868 tea1869 Ramanas rose1876 Japanese rose1883 polyantha1883 old rose1885 American Beauty1887 hybrid tea1890 Japan rose1895 roselet1896 floribunda1898 Zéphirine Drouhin1901 Penzance briar1902 Dorothy Perkins1903 sweetheart1905 wichuraiana1907 mermaid1918 species rose1930 sweetheart rose1936 peace1944 shrub rose1948 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cix. 420 The flowers are small single blush Roses, of little or no sent at all.] 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K2 Dispose That Lady-smock, that Pansie, and that Rose Neatly apart; But for Prick-madam, and for Gentle-heart; And soft Maidens-blush, the Bride Makes holy these. 1882 Garden 19 Aug. 168/2 The Maiden's Blush Rose, once so popular, but now seldom met with. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Feb. 28 From another firm, Roses of Yesterday and Today, in California, I ordered Maiden's Blush, a 15th-century shell-pink alba. b. Any of several varieties of apple, typically with yellow skins flushed or streaked with red; esp. an American variety of cooking apple. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple appleeOE malec1384 pome?1435 mele?1440 maiden's blush1803 1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) vi. 99 Maiden's Blush. This is a small Apple, of a dark mahogany-colour next the sun... The taste is austere, and of course this fruit is not fit for the table; but does very well for baking, or for cider. 1859 H. W. Beecher Plain & Pleasant Talk 311 Maiden's blush..—Tree moderately spreading... The fruit large when the tree is not allowed to ripen too large a crop; white, and blush toward the sun; tender, melting, very juicy, decidededly acid. 1944 Chicago Daily News 25 Sept. 13/3 Right now Wealthies or Maiden's Blush are the choice varieties for cooking or pie. 1971 M. W. G. Smith National Apple Reg. U.K. 333/1 Maiden's Blush (1)... Grown in Ireland, Co. Kilkenny... Shape conic; skin pale yellow almost covered with scarlet flush and stripes and russet dots; flesh white often stained red. 1971 M. W. G. Smith National Apple Reg. U.K. 333/1 Maiden's Blush (2)..Shape tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex, ribbed on body; skin pale yellow flushed orange-red with carmine streaks; flesh firm, rather dry, yellowish; flavour insipid. 1998 N.Y. Times 2 June 2/1 Maiden's Blush, an early ripening yellow apple with a bewitching dark-pink patch on the side that receives the most sunlight. c. Either of two Australian trees with pinkish wood, Sloanea australis (family Elaeocarpaceae), and Euroschinus falcatus (family Anacardiaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 54 E[chinocarpus] Australis.—Maiden's Blush.—A beautiful tree, sometimes attaining a height of 150 feet. 1895 J. H. Maiden Notes Commerc. Timbers New S. Wales 25 Maiden's Blush (Echinocarpus australis..), a soft, durable brush timber, useful for turnery..it is of a delicate rosy colour when freshly cut. 1923 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 19 513 The Maiden's Blush (Sloanea australis) is a fairly well-known ‘scrub’ tree. Its common name is somewhat indiscriminately used by bushmen to designate trees with a pink wood. 1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 174/2 It [sc. Euroschinus falcatus] is variously known as pink poplar, ribbonwood, Donnelly's cedar and most generally perhaps as maiden's blush, though this last vernacular is now retained for a very different tree, Sloanea australis. 1985 N. Nicholson & H. Nicholson Austral. Rainforest Plants 59 Maiden's Blush..was named by timber-workers for the colour of its heartwood... The young toothed leaves are of a beautiful pink, another possible reason for the name. 3. A small geometrid moth, Cyclophora punctaria, having pale brownish yellow wings with reddish markings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > member of genus Ephyra > ephyra punctaria maiden's blush1829 1775 M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 13 Blush, maiden.] 1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 127 Maiden's blush. 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 73/1 (heading) The Maiden's Blush.—All the wings dull, greyish red, with a redder tinge about the middle of the wing. 1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) iv. 56 The second brood of the Maiden's Blush..has consistently a series of blotches in the distal area of the fore-wings. 4. Australian. A drink consisting of raspberry cordial with either rum or ginger beer, or of port and lemonade. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught shenchc950 drinkc1000 draughtc1200 beveragec1390 napa1450 potation1479–81 potionc1484 slaker?1518 glut1541 pocill1572 adipson1601 go-down1614 slash1614 gulf1674 libation1751 meridian1771 sinda1774 sling1788 mahogany1791 a shove in the mouth1821 nooner1836 quencher1841 refresh1851 slackener1861 squencher1871 refreshener1888 refresher1922 maiden's blush1941 maiden's water1975 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1177/1 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry cordial: Australian. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 116 Maiden's blush (a drink, either of port and lemonade or rum and raspberry). 1970 W. Fearn-Wannan Austral. Folklore 32 Usually in old-time bushmen's meaning, a drink of rum and raspberry is a Barmaid's Blush..also known as a ‘Maiden's Blush’. 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