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hunting pink

hunting pink noun: scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.

Noun

hunting pink (countable and uncountable, plural hunting pinks)

  1. Scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.
    • Don't imagine elegant British foxhounds and mounted hunters dressed in their “hunting pink”. South Georgia foxhunts were just a bit different, Paul says.2005, Paul B Dunn, A Stroll Through Fitzgerald, ThomasMax, published 2005, page 42
  2. (in plural) The traditional scarlet jacket and related attire worn by fox-hunters.
    • the open-fronted and unbuttonable surplices worn by Christ Church men in chapel were designed, tradition says, so that hunting pinks could not be concealed beneath them.1965, Jan Morris, Oxford, OUP, published 2001, page 109

Forms of hunting pink

pluralhunting pinks

Origin of hunting pink

Theories that the phrase derived from a tailor called Pink appear to be folk etymology. For further discussion see here (archived from the original).

Questions about hunting pink

What does hunting pink mean?
Hunting pink means scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.
What part of speech is hunting pink?
Hunting pink is a noun.
What is the plural of hunting pink?
The plural of hunting pink is hunting pinks.

Words near hunting pink in the dictionary

  1. hunting leopards
  2. hunting lodge
  3. hunting lodges
  4. hunting out
  5. hunting parson
  6. hunting pink
  7. hunting pinks
  8. hunting pressure
  9. hunting reaction
  10. hunting reactions
  11. hunting response

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