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Santa Fe pink

Santa Fe pink noun: a medium salmony orange-pink color.

santa fe pink: a medium salmony orange-pink color
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Noun

Santa Fe pink (uncountable)

  1. A medium salmony orange-pink color.
    • Here I was in a Santa Fe pink and green office, complete with a playpen so that Parsley, aged 4, and Love, aged 10, could be wheeled in for ‘bonding sessions’ with their producer father once a week.1993, Wensley Clarkson, A Year in La La Land: Adventures of an Englishman in Los Angeles, page 124
    • His office neatly mirrors his personality. All Santa Fe pink and coral green, it’s a painted-desert playpen, adorned with ceramic cacti, a hat rack with horns, and pencils shaped like twigs.1993 March, Patrick Goldstein, “Catch a Wave & You're Sittin' on Top of the World”, in Premiere, page 74

Synonyms of Santa Fe pink

Origin of Santa Fe pink

From the resemblance of the color to the stucco adobes of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and more generally from its prominence in the design of the American Southwest.

Questions about Santa Fe pink

What does Santa Fe pink mean?
Santa Fe pink means a medium salmony orange-pink color.
What part of speech is Santa Fe pink?
Santa Fe pink is a noun.

Words near Santa Fe pink in the dictionary

  1. Santa Emilia
  2. Santa Escolastica Village
  3. Santa Fe
  4. Santa Fe County
  5. Santa Fe Island tortoise
  6. Santa Fe pink
  7. Santa Fe Springs
  8. Santa Fean
  9. Santa Felomina
  10. Santa Filomena
  11. Santa Filomena I

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