peach-bloom
noun [mass noun]
1A matte glaze of reddish pink, mottled with green and brown, used on fine Chinese porcelain since around 1700.
1.1A delicate purplish-pink colour.The author exclaimed: ‘Alas for the little boy whose blond curls and peach-bloom complexion tempt his mother to pamper her own vanity by making a doll of him.’
Origin
Early 19th century: applied to the porcelain glaze from the 1880s.
- God (or Heaven) forbid
- go down
- godown
- go down a bomb
- go down a storm
- go down in history
- go down on
- go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins
- go down (or over) like a lead balloon
- go down the drain
- go down the gurgler
- go down the pan
- go down the plughole
- go down the toilet
- go down the tube (or tubes)
- go down the wrong way
- go down with
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- godparent
- God particle
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