| 单词 | english pink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEnglish pink English pink n. (a) [ < English adj. + pink n.1] a yellow lake pigment, or shade of yellow; = Dutch pink n. at Dutch adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 1b; (b) [ < English adj. + pink n.5] a pink colour (see quot. 1963). ΚΠ 1697 C. K. Art's Master-piece 73 Take English Pink colour, grind it with common Size, and..mix with it a proportion of Lamp-black and White Lead, and work it as in other Japanning. 1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts I. i. ii. §iv. 95 English pink is only a lighter and coarser kind of Dutch pink. 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. ix. 84 Dutch Pink, English and Italian Pinks, are sufficiently absurd names of yellow colours prepared by dyeing, whitening, &c. with vegetal yellow tinctures, in the manner of rose pink, from which they borrow their name. 1901 G. H. Hurst Dict. Chemicals used in Paints 147 English pink, a name given to yellow pigments prepared from Persian berries; they are similar to Dutch pinks. 1963 Times 25 May 11/6 Chrome-tin pink..became known on the Continent as ‘English pink’. 2003 S. Rivers & N. Umney Conservation of Furnit. iv. 154/2 For olive grounds English pink (a yellow lake derived from a dye extracted from buckthorn berries) was mixed with lamp black, lead white and raw umber as required. < as lemmas |
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