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milk and roses
milk and roses n. now rare (designating) a delicate pink-and-white complexion.
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milk and rosesa1637
peaches and cream1893
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 70 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Your either cheeke discloses, Mingled bathes of Milke and Roses.
1858 Harper's Mag. Oct. 604 She was certainly remarkably beautiful. Her complexion was milk and roses admirably mingled.
1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne ii. 14 Dainty of figure she was, with a face all milk and roses.
1918 E. Wallace Down Under Donovan vi. 51 Her milk and rose complexion.
1940 H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat i. 24 The third, Japhet, was what the Germans would consider a Nordic type, all milk and roses.
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