a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 The salmon growes by theis degrees and ages: vz. 1 a pinke; 2 a botcher; 3 a salmon trout; 4 a gillinge; 5 a salmon.

1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. 208 First year, pinks; second year, smelts; third year, sprods; fourth year, morts; fifth year, fork tails; sixth year, salmon.

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 26 There are a great number of samlets or pinks.

1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names..salmon..parr, spawn, pink, last spring, hepper, last-brood,..or by any other local name.

1886 St. Nicholas Aug. 740/2 Presently the alevin grows into the fry, or pink, which is an absurd little fish about an inch long, goggle-eyed, and with dark bars on its sides.

1903 R. H. Howard in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 513/1 [West Yorkshire] Pink, also called smelts.

1901 H. A. Rolt Grayling Fishing in S. Country Streams i. 12 A one-year-old grayling is called a ‘pink’, and has neither spots nor lateral lines which can be observed.

1939 W. C. Platts Grayling Fishing vi. 60 Rolt says that a one-year-old grayling is called a ‘pink’, and a two-year-old a ‘shut’ or ‘shote’ grayling... I have rarely come across these terms in general use.

1952 F. White Good Eng. Food i. iv. 55 The principal grayling rivers..are..the Teme (where yearling fish are termed ‘pinks’ and second year fish ‘shutts’ or ‘shots’ or ‘sheets’) [etc.].

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cj At a great word she will her poynard draw, Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye.

1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iii. sig. E4^v The fellowes a shrewd fellow at a pink.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 4/1 He is spotted with marks of stabs and revolver ‘pinks’, and he takes all his wounds quite as matter of course.

1859 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 31 Mar. 1/7 Sweet, pink-blossomed crab-apple.

1873 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 293 Abundance of pink-blossomed leafless peach and almond trees.

1990 Nature Conservancy May 19/3 Edged by pink-blossomed water lilies.

1826 Times 24 Oct. 1/6 (advt.) Parts I. to IV. may be had, price 2s. 6d. each, or in 2 vols., extra pink bound. price 5s. 6d. each.

1844 W. M. Thackeray Box of Novels in Wks. (1900) XIII. 403 Those pink-bound volumes are to be found in every garrison.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xvi. 216 The gloriously pink-bound and red-underlined typed manuscript of the play was mailed to Messrs. Wendelbaum & Schirtz.

1999 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 Oct. 32 Her..biography..is a pink-bound, glossy coffee-table slab.

1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. III. Pl. 1 Erythrodryas rhodinogaster. Pink-breasted Wood-Robin.

1991 Forbes FYI 18 Mar. 50/2 Thousands and thousands of pink-breasted doves.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 71 The baby, adorned in a pink-checked frock, a blue spotted pinafore, and a little white cap.

2002 Daily Record (Glasgow) 27 Mar. 16 I am currently putting together a pink-checked tweed shooting suit.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. ix. 92 A very fresh pink-cheeked pretty little Sally.

1883 G. Barlow Actor's Reminisc. 63 Then I met another; a fair girl More of the pink-cheeked average English type.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 24 Sept. 58/2 Pink-cheeked gents swilling dry martinis.

1600 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 257/3 Item one Mantle with a traine of pale pincke coloured networke florished allover with silver like Esses and branches Billetwise.

1681 T. Jordan London's Joy B iv A Mantle of pink colour'd sarsnet, fringed with Gold.

1813 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 446 The Volumes..are in pink-coloured Paper.

1965 A. R. Daniel Up-to-date Confectionery (ed. 4) xxviii. 408/1 Spread the sheet of roulade with pink-coloured kirsch-flavoured butter icing.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 8 Aug. 162 (advt.) In my bedroom, you'll find: Pink-colored walls, my cat under the bed.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 83 Mr. Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man.

1946 S. Spender European Witness ix. 46 A pink-complexioned mild-mannered man.

1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Nov. x13 A bunch of..pink-complexioned thugs in the midst of committing mayhem.

1844 J. H. Ingraham Ellen Hart xi. 37 A short man with..scanty half-whiskers, pink edged eyes, and a pink cravat.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 174 Pink-edged, pink-faced,..and thick cardboard wads, cloth wads, and black wads, are used for special purposes.

1994 Guardian 7 June i. 19/3 Petals fringed with white cottony hairs and pink-edged sepals.

1874 New Q. Mag. 2 586 He was a pink-fleshed, clean young fellow.

1979 ‘J. Ross’ Rattling of Old Bones vi. 54 Pink-fleshed and moist from the sauna, she was small and plump.

1990 B. Sandison Tales of Loch (BNC) 32 A Loch Leven strain of fish, pink-fleshed, which were splendid fun to catch.

1850 J. S. Jenkins U.S. Exploring Exped.: Voy. of Exploring Squadron ii. ii. 491 The scarlet anemone,..the pink-flowered valerian,..blend their choice dyes together.

1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 23/1 We noted that the pink-flowered cistus bloom over a longer period than the white ones.

1875 A. J. C. Hare Days near Rome 24 Pink-frilled daisies cover the vast meadows.

1906 Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 5/6 A white gown and blue picture hat and pink-frilled parasol.

2000 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 Feb. f1 A bedraggled, pink-frilled woman's bathrobe.

1885 La Porte City (Iowa) Rev. 5 Feb. 2/4 Who is that evil-eyed, pink-haired, lumpy-legged, prairie-eared microbe?

1990 Harper's Mag. Oct. 66/2 The pink-haired punkess with a jewel in her nose.

1955 D. Davie Brides of Reason 8 The nausea that struggles to despatch Pink-handed horror in a craggy room.

1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Ficoides Upright Tree-like African Ficoides..commonly call'd Pink-leav'd Ficoides.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 36 Pink-leaved Sedge..a distinct and very pretty plant.

1994 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 17 Apr. h20 There are five types of caladiums available: White-leaved... Pink-leaved, such as ‘Pink Beauty’, [etc.].

1840 C. Norton Dream 29 And pink-lipp'd shells and many-colour'd weeds.

1993 Times 24 May 18/2 Mouse-ear hawkweed is like a lemon-yellow dandelion, pink-lipped beneath.

1859 R. J. Mann Colony of Natal viii. 152 The flowers of this striking plant are large white pink-ribbed bells.

1881 S. H. Shadbolt Moonbeam Tangle v. 133 Arise, strong-stemmed, pink-ribbed, and shiny-pated!

2006 P. D. Irwin Colorado's Best Wildflower Hikes viii. 57/2 Each minute petal is pink-ribbed underneath.

1934 W. Deeping Seven Men came Back viii. 135 Two swarthy young men in coloured shirts who lisped persuasively at customers over pink-scrolled lower lips.

1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose iv. 41 Two lilac-shaded pink-scrolled Louise Odiers.

2002 J. L. Burke White Doves at Morning xxiv. 259 Each of the robes was sewn with an ornate, pink-scrolled camellia.

1839 Times 23 May 8/2 Spectacle lenses, which are nothing more than the commonest glass, pink-shaded.

1903 H. James Ambassadors vii. xvi. 222 His dinner with Maria Gostrey, between the pink-shaded candles.

2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 11 Nov. 18 Cream walls with little pink-shaded wall lights.

1863 Times 30 Nov. 6/2 The kidney and round potatoes form quite a show by themselves, pink-skinned tubers evidently becoming fashionable.

1993 E. Galford Dyke & Dybbuk (BNC) 216 An incongruously pink-skinned Ruth kneels to swear devotion to a snub-nosed, Anglo-Saxon Naomi.

1802 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 839 This huge facing of Rock..the whole winded & torrent-worn, except where the pink-striped Screes come in.

1997 Sunday Times (Nexis) 27 July I stayed in the usual room at Westonbirt, the one with pink striped wallpaper.

1846 J. H. Ingraham Hand of Clay iii, in Spectre Steamer, & Other Tales 84 Frederick..was silently engaged in shaping the lump of pink-tinted clay he had brought into a rough resemblance of a human hand.

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File v. 32 His pink-tinted rimless spectacles.

2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 65/2 An upright deciduous perennial with blue-green leaves and dainty pink-tinted panicles.

a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 202 The daisy's eyelid, Fringed with pink-tipped petals piled.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 190 The..bog-whortle,..whose white flowers, pink-tipped, stuff the ptarmigan's crop.

1995 Church Times 6 Oct. 12/5 Ours [sc. our parthenocissus] climbs unaided, invades the roof space, then droops its pink-tipped trails.

1823 L. E. Landon Tale founded on Fact in London Lit. Gaz. 5 July 427/3 The honeysuckle..mixing its white And pink veined bunches with the scarlet flowers..of the bean.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 73 His little eyes..were pink-veined and raw.

1982 Britannia 13 210 Two fragments of pink-veined Pyrenean marble, campan rose.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vii. 260 Equestrians, Tumblers, Women, Girls, and Boys, Blue-breech'd, pink-vested.

2004 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 11 Jan. r1 These pink-vested ladies are part of a pretty feisty sisterhood.

1857 Harper's Mag. Sept. 460/2 The [coal] veins of the first, second, and third axes are of the white-ash variety; overlying these is a transition group called gray or pink ash.

1896 Science 27 Mar. 488/2 Sixteen coal seams of varying thickness, of which the lowest three show a red ash, several below them a white ash, while the upper three return to a red or pink ash.

1940 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 4 July 4/7 (advt.) Coal for sale—Pink ash, $7.50.

1862 Weekly Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 6 Sept. 3/3 We note sales of Pink Beans of the new crop at 6c.

1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat 235 There, against the wall, stood four one-hundred-pound sacks of pink beans.

2000 E. Fowler Mariner's Compass xi. 191 I ate a traditional Basque meal:..pink beans with a sauce hotter than any Santa Maria salsa I'd ever eaten.

1858 A. C. Ramsay et al. Descriptive Catal. Rock Specimens 80 ‘Pink Bed’, forming a part of the freestone series of the middle Purbeck.

1972 Countryman Autumn 62 ‘How many beds are there?’ I asked. ‘Well, there's “thornback”, “whitsun bed”, “rag”, and “pink bed”—depending on where the quarry is,’ he replied.

1990 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 98 303 The white beds [in Italy] were probably deposited under the same conditions as the underlying pink beds.

2001 Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs 33 30 A..northeast extension of this trend would bring it to the southeast side of the Pink Beds pluton.

1906 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Indian Insect Pests iii. viii. 94 The pink boll-worms are most abundant when the cotton forms bolls.

1932 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Fund. Insect Life viii. 273 Among the most destructive and best-known species [of Gelechiidæ] are the pink bollworm.., the Angoumois grain moth.

1955 Sci. News Let. 23 July 56/2 The preferred food of the pink bollworm larva is the kernel of the cotton seed.

1995 New Scientist 4 Mar. 15/1 Monsanto has already developed a strain of cotton..which contains a Bt gene. It keeps caterpillar pests at bay, including cotton bollworm and pink bollworm.

1973 Times 16 June 18/2 Pink buttons are not..the female equivalents of blue buttons.

1974 Sunday Tel. 7 Apr. 29/3 As ‘pink buttons’, they look after all the firm's communications, both between the floor of the House and the offices, and between the brokers and country exchanges.

1793 Times 15 Feb. 1/3 A large Parcel of white and pink Champaigne, from Ai.

1827 G. Croly May Fair 77 The pink champagne, rich, creamy, sparkling, You see the room around you darkling!

1990 Vogue Sept. 182/1 The chef de caves, being a typical Champenois, could not possibly take pink champagne seriously.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pinkcheek, an Australian fish, Upeneichthys porosus.

1890 Daily News 15 Feb. 6/4 At the Pytchley ball..the great majority of the dresses had been composed with a particular view to a happy contrast..with a pink-coated partner.

1951 V. Nabokov Conclusive Evid. iii. 38 Pink-coated, he rode to hounds in England.

1993 Guardian 3 Dec. i. 24/6 The worst ‘killers’ involved in hunting are not the pink-coated squires and farmers.

1975 McCalls Nov. 107 Adapted from the forthcoming book ‘Pink Collar Worker’.

1977 L. K. Howe Pink Collar Workers i. 21 The most dramatic distinctions continue between what can most descriptively be termed pink collar work and work in the male and integrated markets.

1987 Independent 28 Jan. 13/3 The rise of women in American journalism is well on the way to making it a ‘pink collar’ industry.

2001 Atlanta Constit. (Electronic ed.) 27 June Until we get some gender diversity, nursing will still be pink collar. Salaries have always reflected the undervaluing of women's work.

1875 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 2/1 The little Parisian lady...claps her hands in extravagant delight when she sees the pink curlew or some other gayly-colored bird.

1938 H. C. Oberholser Bird Life of Louisiana 81 Roseate Spoonbill... Its color has given rise to most of its names, and it is known popularly often as ‘pink curlew’, or simple ‘pink bird’.

1969 R. J. Longstreet Birds in Florida (ed. 4) 30 Roseate Spoonbill—Other names: Pink Curlew.

1921 Med. Jrnl. Austral. 19 Feb. 146/1 When the rash is marked it is common to find the glands in the axillæ and groins enlarged. It is this pink rash, that leads to the name ‘pink disease’.

1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xvii. 28/1 Pink disease earns its name from the colour of the hands and feet and not from an imaginary Dr Pink to whom many students credit its discovery.

1992 Time 6 July 22/2 Josef Warkany..found that ‘pink disease’, which killed or injured thousands of children until mid-century, was caused by mercury poisoning from teething powders and ointments.

1990 Guardian 13 Mar. (Arts section) 38/3 The gay community there [sc. San Francisco] is mainly made of white males. Basically it has the power of the pink dollar and that influences things.

1999 A. J. Murray in E. Blackwood & S. E. Wieringa Female Desires vi. 145 The growth of gay tourism and the power of pink dollars.

2013 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 24 Apr. 1 Tasmanian tourism chiefs are eyeing..the lucrative pink dollar of the gay and lesbian community.

1964 M. Sharland Territory of Birds 106 The delightful little Pink-ear, with broad bill, zebra stripes, and white-rimmed eye, is well distributed.

1994 New Scientist 27 Aug. 31/1 150 pink ears, 3 glossy ibis, 50 little grebe, 20 Pacific heron, 4 black swan, 200 freckled duck.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 127 Pink-eared D[uck], or Widgeon..Malacorhynchus membranaceus.

1955 S. Osborne Duck Shooting Austral. 11 Pink-eared duck... Also known as Whistling or Zebra Duck and Widgeon.

1997 Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. Lett. 6 435 Bird records from the Lake Eyre South islands... Pink-eared duck.

1900 Blue Pencil Mag. Apr. 22/1 She don't stand for this booze business, and I'm opposed to it myself. D'ye see them pink elephants running up my pants legs?

1933 Official World's Fair Weekly (Chicago) 30 Sept. 25/3 Nightmares of the modern school are built around ‘pink elephants’ if we are to believe the song writers.

1984 M. Amis Money 93 Goodney, in his white suit, suntan and sliding blond hair, stood out like a pink elephant.

1812 J. Austen Let. 29 Nov. (1995) 197 Happy Woman! to stand the gaze of a neighbourhood as the Bride of such a pink-faced simple young Man!

1918 A. H. Chute Real Front xiv. 240 He encountered a pink-faced English youth, who had just got his commission.

1992 Economist 26 Dec. 20/3 The sad fact is that some of these pompous, pink-faced students with their blue blazers and their champagne buckets will end up running Britain.

1872 Littell's Living Age 3 Aug. 302/1 He took the pink fever, and it struck to his head, and they cut his hair off.

1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Pink Pink fever.

1906 Times 31 Mar. 9/5 The Fir Apple potato, which is branched like a fir cone.]

1923 Times 31 Jan. 13/5 Messrs. Sutton and Sons, had a comprehensive exhibit of potatoes..with such curiosities as the ‘Pink Fir Apple’.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 142 If you can get Pink Fir Apples so much the better, but it's not an issue.

1898 Bull. U.S. National Mus. 47 2262 Typhlogobius Californiensis..Pink-fish... Color uniform light pink... From San Diego south to Cerros Island.

1965 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 378/2 We just about had the voyage turned down. We had what we call pink, what they call the pink fish.

1977 T. Russell Tales from Pigeon Inlet 39 You remember the fellow..that used to give me all the information about salt and pink fish and things like that?

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 404 The pink-foot doves Still told their weary tale unto their loves.

1957 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VI. 239 In 1951 pink-foots arrived in Britain unusually late.

1995 Field Mar. 69/2 The basic call for pinkfeet is a high-pitched ‘ugh-ugh’.

1839 A. D. Bartlett in Proc. Zool. Soc. 7 7 On a new British species of the genus Anser... Pink-footed Goose... Legs and feet, of a reddish flesh colour or pink.

1932 Discovery Aug. 244/2 White-fronted and pink-footed geese..are supposed to be nesting at the sources of the rivers running northwards from the ice-cap [in Iceland].

1995 Guardian 18 Dec. i. 14/7 These were pink-footed geese, thousands of them moving in loosely drawn skeins across a small window of open sky.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 197/1 Pink gilding,..should present at the same time, the red, yellow, and white shades, in such a manner that a practised eye will distinguish them.

1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xiv. 138 They were drinking pink gin.

1952 E. Grierson Reputation for Song xxii. 178 She knew the type: a big car, and pink gins, and wine for dinner.

1992 Atlantic Dec. 108/2 We left them there, stewing in resentment and muttering over their pink gins.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 196/2 Pink gold [results] from the combination of gold, silver, and copper.

1948 A. Selwyn Retail Jeweller's Handbk. (ed. 3) x. 137 Red gold had a revival when Paris jewellers re-introduced it in jewellery in 1937–38... Pale shades are called pink or rose gold.

a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) i. 4 Teddy's mother favored white gold, and Jane Louise's mother preferred pink.

1921 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 26 Jan. 4/2 Did you know that there is a pink grapefruit?

2002 Esquire May 88/4 Add lycopene, found in tomato sauce, pink grapefruit, and watermelon, to your diet at least twice a week for better prostate health.

1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire 155 There is an old saying that, ‘A cow will not clem, if there are three blades of pink grass in the field’. The flower is something like a diminutive rush.

1872 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 5 July 3/2 Repelling the advances of sundry youthful dealers in pink lemonade.

1998 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 6 Sept. 30 The ingredients [of ‘Barbie Juice’]? ‘Pink lemonade (as sold in plastic bottles at the supermarket), diluted with water for the infants and with fizzy wine for the adults.’

2002 Esquire May 131/2 Bo blended her a drink with gin and ice cream and pink lemonade; he put whipped cream on top—pink panties, he called it.

1835 G. Field Chromatogr. 97 Rubric, or Madder Lakes.., have obtained..the various names of rose rubiates, rose madder, pink madder, and Field's lakes.

1934 H. Hiler Notes Technique Painting ii. 125 Madder, Pink Madder... These names are now applied both to products from the genuine madder root, and also to those made from its synthetic colouring principles alizarin and purpurin.

2000 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 12 Mar. h1 Monet..knew that the chrome yellow, pink madder and ultramarine blue could be found as the shifting light plays off the daffodils, the azaleas and the vivid blue of a clear spring sky.

1961 G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 151 Pink noise is derived from white noise by applying a rising bass characteristic through the range.

1976 Gramophone Apr. 1690/1 Measurements were made of the response of my lounge, using pink noise derived from a Rogers noise generator.

1980 Technometrics 22 394/1 (caption) Correlation function of western United States drought data from 271 yearly observations, and correlation function from fitted first order autoregression with observational error (pink noise).

2003 Physica A 323 705 (title) Is the North Atlantic Oscillation just a pink noise?

1894 1st Rep. Sel. Comm. Parl. Papers Distribution p. iii, in Parl. Papers XIV. 497 A Schedule shall be circulated daily, weekly, or otherwise, as may be found most convenient, giving reference number, title, and short note of contents of all Papers presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, or printed by Order of either House, since the date of the Schedule last issued. This Schedule shall be sent to each Member in the shape of a demand form, printed on pink paper, and returnable post free.]

1896 Times 6 Aug. 4/1 He could not see why particulars should not be given in the pink paper of the amount allowed for improvements.

1957 I. Jennings Parliament (ed. 2) xiv. 505 (note) It was notified on the ‘pink paper’ on 19 November.