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hunting pinks

hunting pinks is the plural of hunting pink.

Meaning of hunting pink

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

Questions about hunting pinks

What is hunting pinks the plural of?
Hunting pinks is the plural of hunting pink.

Words near hunting pinks in the dictionary

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

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