pinks

Noun

pink (countable and uncountable, plural pinks)

1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
   • My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
   1. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
   2. Pale red.
2. Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
   • This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
3. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
   • Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
4. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
   • I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 23

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