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- adjective having the pinkish flush of health
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Examples
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Sotheby's tried to leverage Picasso's global appeal by packing its $170.4 million sale with pieces spanning the artist's seven-decade career, from early Picasso portraits of rosy-cheeked children to late-era nudes.
Sotheby's Opens Spring Sales Kelly Crow 2011
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If I fail I will die with noname, my family will dig up a holethrow me in and paste a picture of meas a rosy-cheeked teen, in lieu of an epitaph a priest chants the Ave Maria
The Perfect Ending Gessy Alvarez 2012
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The usual imagery attached to rosy-cheeked Santa Claus on Christmas Eve is in-flight, on a sleigh, being pulled by a cadre of hard-working reindeer.
Marie Elena Martinez: 10 Exciting Holiday Experiences In 5 American Cities Marie Elena Martinez 2011
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His unkempt hair looks natural and his rosy-cheeked disposition is not at all off-putting.
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"Robust" was very much the word of the week; robust policing, robust sentencing, robust rosy-cheeked district nurses cycling through picture-postcard English villages.
Joey Barton's robust Twitter chatter is sadly far from riotous | Martin Kelner 2011
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The usual imagery attached to rosy-cheeked Santa Claus on Christmas Eve is in-flight, on a sleigh, being pulled by a cadre of hard-working reindeer.
Marie Elena Martinez: 10 Exciting Holiday Experiences In 5 American Cities Marie Elena Martinez 2011
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Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech.
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The two presidents met in an almost baroque welcoming ritual at Los Pinos, with bleachers full of rosy-cheeked schoolchildren from a few surrounding academies joyously waving tiny American and Mexican flags.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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I am going for a gallop with Maria, a beautiful, rosy-cheeked gaucha who slaughters sheep and tends to the sick horses with the best of her fellows.
Trekking Across Chile's Majestic Frontier Jemima Sissons 2011
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Even now she could see them all out there, rosy-cheeked in the sunshine, competing in their matching striped shorts and white shoes.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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