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单词 rosy-purple
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rosy-purple
b. With adjectives (and nouns) expressing colour or tone, as rosy-blue, rosy bright, rosy-crimson, rosy-gilt, rosy-golden, rosy-mauve, rosy-pale, rosy-purple, rosy-white, etc. Cf. rosy-red adj.
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1716 N. Rowe Ode for New Year vii. 6 On the balmy Air sits Rosie-colour'd Health.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 505 The racy wine,..By ten long years refin'd, and rosy-bright.
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 220 One drop of tincture of galls gave a rosy purple colour to a wine-pint of this water.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 60 From the ground her foot Gleamed rosywhite.
1845 Beck's Florist 179 With large handsome foliage and..flowers of a pleasing rosy-crimson colour.
1862 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 10 Which, lightening o'er the body rosy-pale, Like shiver'd rubies dance.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. 68 His forehead was flower-white, his cheek rosy bright.
1894 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 200 Cattleya Trianae, with its rosy-mauve sepals and petals..is one of the best known orchids.
1925 V. Woolf Common Reader 115 The apples rosy-gilt in the afternoon sun.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iii. 11 The child and she were now both tanned with a rosy-golden tan, all over.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 94 [Cattleya] Harrisoniana, light rosy-mauve, variable, summer, autumn.
1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 3 Leaving New York in daylight, his plane had soon risen into a sort of radiant rosy-blue stratospheric gloom.
1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 94/3 The terrine de poisson, a rosy-pale slice of fish pâté.
1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 139 The clusters or large, waxy, translucent, rich rosy-crimson, bell-shaped flowers are almost unbelievably beautiful.
1999 Church Times 11 June 11/1 The Judas tree..is now established, but..it will be a few years before we see its rich, rosy-purple pea-flowers on the bare stems.
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