- pale red in colour
- pale pink roses
- She went bright pink with embarrassment.
- The sun was now just a pink glow in the evening sky.
- She was wearing a hot (= bright) pink top.
- Outside, the sky is turning pink.
Extra ExamplesTopics Colours and Shapesa1- He was pink with anger.
- She could feel herself going pink.
- The western sky was glowing pink.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- glow
- go
- grow
- …
- fluorescent
- hot
- baby
- …
- with
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- [only before noun] (British English) connected with gay people
- the pink pound (= money spent by gays and lesbians as an influence in the economy)
- (informal, disapproving, politics) having or showing slightly left-wing political views
- pale pink politics
Word Originadjective mid 17th cent.: from pink (the plant), the early use of the adjective being to describe the colour of the flowers of this plant.
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