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.
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