Definitions
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- adjective of pink tinged with grey
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Examples
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The weak sun had turned the palace a grey-pink, and the shadowy grass was wet beneath our feet.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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The weak sun had turned the palace a grey-pink, and the shadowy grass was wet beneath our feet.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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In the grey-pink light the whole world had changed.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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In the grey-pink light the whole world had changed.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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On either side the doorway crouched massive grey-pink lions wrought in stone, the heavy outspread paws and firm-set haunches resting at royal ease.
Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905
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Suddenly she slithered out her slender grey-pink tongue and licked its nose.
Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900
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Suddenly she slithered out her slender grey-pink tongue and licked its nose.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The exquisitely weathered tints of grey-pink and orange that its ancient red sandstone walls have taken on with the centuries, its many gables and towers rising in summer-time out of a sea of greenery, the richness of its architectural details, make Glamis a thing apart.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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The front was brocade, laid upon a ground of grey-pink, shot with orange, and the effect was such as is seen when the sun hangs behind a lowering grey cloud, tinged with pink.
Muslin 1892
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Egrets, white against the grey-pink sky, are floating upriver to roost in the winterthorn trees in the middle of Dad's bananas.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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