单词 | pinky-grey |
释义 | > as lemmaspinky-grey C1. Modifying other adjectives of colour, as pinky-brown, pinky-grey, pinky-red, pinky-white, etc. ΚΠ 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Caucalis Anglica flore rebente Flowers of a pinky red Colour. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 225 Pileus and stem pinky white. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Picture in Poems (1829) I. 177 Sketched on a strip of pinky-silver skin. 1832 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 18 Dec. (1835) II. 47 The honey Daphne Odora, with its clusters of pinkey-white blossoms. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 174 She-elephants, with restless, little pinky-black calves only three or four feet high. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 101 A piece of pinkey-brown paper in his hand..was the first telegram ever seen in Barbie. 1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 29 Pale belly, and soft, pinky-fawn claws. 1977 Vogue Feb. 94 Pinky blonde, double-faced wool shirtjacket. 1990 Harper's Mag. Aug. 55/1 They walk up the path, which is dry earth and rocks, big rounded pinky-gray boulders. 2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? iv. 47 Frank and Honey are lying on my favourite pinky-red Turkish rug. < as lemmas |
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