pinkwashed
pinkwashed adjective: colored or tinged pink, especially from paint or light. Also the simple past and past participle of pinkwash.
Adjective
pinkwashed (comparative more pinkwashed, superlative most pinkwashed)
- Colored or tinged pink, especially from paint or light.
- The buildings were low, generally with one story, and never with more than two, and built of adobe, a sort of clay found abundantly in the dryer parts of the Southwest. They were not only whitewashed but bluewashed and pinkwashed, as Roy put it, giving a very gay appearance to the streets.1907, Mary Wright Plummer, Roy and Ray in Mexico, Henry Holt and Company, page 22
- We move out of the trees and up a little rise where we can better see the sky, which is slate blue with a flaming rosy glow that fades to the palest pinkwashed gold.2008, Tanita S. Davis, A La Carte, Borzoi Books, →ISBN, page 218
Also used as
pinkwashed is also the simple past and past participle of pinkwash.
Forms of pinkwashed
| comparative | more pinkwashed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pinkwashed |
Questions about pinkwashed
- What does pinkwashed mean?
- Pinkwashed means colored or tinged pink, especially from paint or light.
- What part of speech is pinkwashed?
- Pinkwashed is an adjective.
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