pinkish
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]pinkish (comparative more pinkish, superlative most pinkish)
- Somewhat pink.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 160:
- West Quantoxhead, 1½ miles to the south-west, has some handsome houses and an imposing mansion, St Audries - now a girls' school - built in the Tudor style in the 19th century, at the same time as the pinkish-buff stone Church of St Ethelreda - also called St Audrey - which has an elegant tapering spirelet.
- 2014, Clint Pustejovsky, Snakes of Central Texas: A Guide to Common and Notable Species, Quick Reference Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, Central Texas whipsnake N[on-venomous] Masticophis taeniatus girardi:
- F[eatures] [...] Black or dark brown back; faded white stripes and white patches on the sides; pinkish/peach-colored belly
Translations
[edit]somewhat pink
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