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ˈpeach-blow
[See blow n.3]
a. A delicate purplish-pink colour: cf. prec., 2. Freq. attrib.
1829T. Flint George Mason 32 The Red Bud in a thousand places was one compact tuft of peach-blow flowers. 1837J. L. Williams Terr. Florida 75 This bird is of a peach-blow colour. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 176 The berg is immersed in almost supernatural splendors... The blue and the purple pass up into peach-blow and pink. 1896Godey's Mag. (U.S.) Feb. 212/1 The colorings are exquisite; peach-blow pink and lime green. 1922H. Shoemaker Allegheny Episodes xxv. 344 Her skin was transparently white, and the delicate peach-blow color in her cheeks was too hectic to betoken good health.
b. A glaze of this colour on some Oriental porcelain.
1886Pall Mall G. 10 Apr. 5/1 The little peachblow or crushed strawberry vase which sold for over {pstlg}4,000.
c. A variety of potato of this colour (Cent. Dict.).
d. A type of glass of a similar colour.
[1886Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 20 July 236/2 13,523 Glass Table-Ware and Fancy Glass Articles..Frederick S. Shirley, New Bedford, Mass... Used since July 1, 1885 ‘The word ‘peach’.’] 1886Pottery & Glassware Reporter 4 Nov. 21/2 In recent years four novelties have been brought out by the New England Glass Works, under Mr. Libbey's administration. We refer to the Amberina, Pomona, Peachblow, and Agata grades of goods. 1930L. W. Watkins Cambridge Glass 1818–1888 156 The peach blow glass took its name from the Chinese peach blow porcelain... The New England [Glass Co.] peach blow is one of the loveliest and most unusual things in American glass. In color it shades by imperceptible degrees from white to a deep rose. 1933Antiques (U.S.) Aug. 48 (heading) Peachblow Glass. Ibid., Among those glass collectors who are more susceptible to color than to antiquity, ‘peachblow items’ are highly valued. 1944R. W. Lee Victorian Glass xxii. 561 None of the glass factories at which Peachblow was produced adhered either to the shapes or to the purposes of the Peachblow porcelains. 1972K. M. Wilson New England Glass vii. 352 Both the Mount Washington Peachblow and the New England Wild Rose are to be found in their natural state and also with a ‘plush’, or satin finish. 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Oct. 30/6 Peachblow originated with Hobbs Brockunier around 1883. It is lined with white and shades from yellow to peach. |