carnationedadj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink
incarnatea1533
fleshy1555
incarnation1562
pallet1565
peach1583
bepurfurate1584
blush1597
carnation1598
peachy1599
peach-coloured1600
pink-coloured1600
incarnadine1605
pink1607
blush-coloured1626
blushy1626
gridelin1652
carnationeda1658
pinky1661
carneous1673
peach blossom1702
flesh-coloured1703
flesh-colour1711
mushroom-coloured1770
salmon-coloured1776
pinkish1785
salmon1786
blush-tinted1818
flesh-red1819
naturelle1873
flesh-pink1882
lilac-pink1882
pinksome1913
nude1922
magnolia-pink1931
salmony1935
magnolia1963
a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 12 Court gentle Zephyr, court and fan Her softer breast's carnation'd Wan.
2. Reddened, made ruddy.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [adjective] > made red
rubified?1526
reddened1552
empurpled1600
crimsoneda1641
ruddied1793
incarnadined1821
carnationed1823
1823 Ld. Byron Manfred ii. ii. 18 Carnation'd like a sleeping infant's cheek.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxv. 76 Her hair getting frizzed and her cheeks carnationed by the wind.
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