rose pinkn.adj.

1732 Method learning to Draw iii. 29 1st Purple. Take Rose-pink finely ground and powdered, mix it well with a little Sanders Blue, till the Powder appears of the Colour you want.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 ii. 741 I should suppose rose-pink no other than chalk or whiting tinged of a red colour.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 337 A dinner..where clean faces appeared in lieu of black ones, smeared with rose pink.

1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 100 Take of linseed oil one quart, alkenett root one ounce, and rose pink half an ounce.

1901 G. H. Hurst Dict. Chemicals & Raw Products 60 It [sc. Brazil-wood] is also employed in the preparation of rose pink for painting.

1913 C. L. Uebele Paint Making & Color Grinding xi. 235 Rose pink is often called for in Japan when mahogany effect is desired in car work, etc., or in furniture factories.

2003 P. Ball Bright Earth (new ed.) vi. 140 Rose Pink, prepared from brazilwood, was considered different from the lake pigment derived from the same colorant.

1772 S. Scott Test Filial Duty II. 65 Though her handkerchief is of thick cambrick, the vivid hue of that part of her neck which is under it, makes it appear many shades deeper than the fashionable rose-pink.

1790 T. Garnett Exper. & Observ. Horley-Green Spaw 22 The powder was changed from a yellow to a beautiful colour resembling rose-pink.

1807 La Belle Assemblée Dec. 283 The cap is now chiefly confined to the morning costume... The prevailing colours are, mixtures of orange, coquelicot, green, purple, amber, and rose-pink.

1872 G. Meredith Let. 3 Dec. (1970) I. 473 Read the first chapter for a specimen of modern rose-pink.

1882 Garden 1 Apr. 223 Dense trusses of flowers of a lovely rose-pink.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. i. 22 Rose-pink and dirty drab will..have passed away.

1908 Times 24 Oct. 5/1 There is..Pulchella, with starry little flowers of rose-pink.

1912 M. Fisher Kirstie x. 120 I should have a hundred ways of consoling myself when the rose-pink faded, and the gilt edge wore off, without writing club-essays.

1945 Sunday Times (Cumberland, Maryland) 9 June 26/4 An entire bed or border may be planted..using white between..salmon-pink and rose-pink to avoid minor color clashes.

2000 Nelson (N. Z.) Mail (Nexis) 31 Aug. 13 Among them are the..pointed bi-coloured blooms in deep rose pink.

1778 J. Murray Impartial Hist. Present War Amer. 516 Eighty-five mirrors, decked with rose-pink silk ribbands, and artificial flowers.

1789 C. R. Hopson tr. J. C. Wiegleb Gen. Syst. Chem. ii. i. 269 The solution contracts a rose-pink or purple colour.

1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 213 Arragonite is found..at Down Hill, of a rose pink shade.

1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 363 In the centre of the great hall is a beautiful rose-pink granite sarcophagus.

1908 Times 14 June 13/2 There were four bridesmaids dressed in pale rose pink silk.

1967 Friends May 22 (caption) Its luminous, unfading rose-pink flowers are set off by golden yellow at the base of the petals.

2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) v. 194 The old home dressing-room had been given a lick of rose-pink paint.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 52 If we pierce through that rosepink vapour of Sentimentalism, Philanthropy, and Feasts of Morals.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. ix. 154 Hardy..would test his new idea..and ruthlessly strip off any tinsel or rose-pink sentiment.

1891 Farrar in Harper's Mag. May 903 The people of our slums will never be won by a rose-pink religionism.

1964 Nineteenth-Century Fiction 19 256 Had Meredith written a sentimental comedy..he might have pleased..his ‘rose-pink’ readers.

1975 J. Wilt Readable People George Meredith vii. 218 A very ‘rose-pink’ view indeed of a novel whose central plot offers one character blowing his brains out with a pistol.