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maiden's blush
1. Used as a name for a delicate pink colour. Hence, a rose of this colour; also maiden-blush rose.
Cf. maiden blush, s.v. maiden A. 10.
1648Herrick Hesper., Epithal. Sir C. Carew, But for prick-madam, and for gentle-heart, And soft maidens-blush, the bride Makes holy these. 1661Peacham Compl. Gent. (ed. 3) 156 Of the signification of Colours. Maidens-blush, [signifieth] Envy. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 226 From which Place rise several many-leav'd Flowers, of a Maiden's-blush. 1861C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret ii. 35 The standard maiden-blush rose. 1882Garden 19 Aug. 168/2 The Maiden's Blush Rose, once so popular, but now seldom met with. 1928D. H. Lawrence Let. 14 Nov. (1962) II. 1100 Those maiden-blush roses.
2. A small geometrid moth, Ephyra punctaria.
1869E. Newman Brit. Moths 73.
3. Either of two Australian trees with pinkish wood, Sloanea australis, of the family Elæocarpaceæ, or Euroschinus falcatus, of the family Anacardiaceæ.
1884A. Nilson Timber Trees New South Wales 54 E[chinocarpus] Australis.—Maiden's Blush.—A beautiful tree, sometimes attaining a height of 150 feet. 1965Austral. Encycl. I. 174/2 It [sc. Euroschinus falcatus] is variously known as pink poplar, ribbonwood, Donnelly's cedar and most generally perhaps as maiden's blush, though this last vernacular is now retained for a very different tree, Sloanea australis. Ibid. III. 364/2 S[loanea] australis (maiden's blush or bush alder) is a small tree with showy flowers, found in the coastal brush forests from Illawarra in southern New South Wales to Queensland.
4. Austral. (See quots.)
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1177/1 Maiden's blush, ginger beer and raspberry cordial: Australian. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. vi. 116 Maiden's blush (a drink, either of port and lemonade or rum and raspberry). |