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sky-blue pink

sky-blue pink noun: a color of the sky at sunrise or sunset, with patches of blue and pink, or a gradient between them.

sky-blue pink: a color of the sky at sunrise or sunset, with patches of blue and pink, or a gradient between them
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Noun

sky-blue pink (uncountable)

  1. A color of the sky at sunrise or sunset, with patches of blue and pink, or a gradient between them.
    • Before us, framing the skyscrapers of Manhattan, was a golden skyline filled with vibrant blues and pinks and softer hues of violet, rose and lavender. "I've always called it sky blue-pink," I answered. "Is that a real word?" Nell asked, confident that I, who work with words for a living, would...1999, The Ladies' Home Journal
    • The summer snow capping the jagged summits was bathed in a soft sky-blue pink from the lowering sun. Fauchard filled his red-rimmed eyes with the magnificent beauty, as he cocked his ear and listened to the exhaust sound produced by the eighty-horsepower, four-stroke Gnome rotary engine that...2005, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos, Lost City, Penguin, →ISBN
  2. A nonspecific or made-up color.
    • “I can’t tell the colour,” said Binns. “It was like a sky blue pink, with a shade of greeny brown, or something like that.”1893 September 13, Arizona Weekly Journal-Miner
    • He splashed around and scattered the skilligimink color all over the kitchen, and when his mamma and Susie fished him out, if he wasn’t dyed the most beautiful sky-blue-pink you ever saw!1910, Howard R. Garis, Sammie and Susie Littletail

Examples of sky-blue pink in a sentence

  • The summer snow capping the jagged summits was bathed in a soft sky-blue pink from the lowering sun.2005, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos, Lost City, Penguin, →ISBN:
  • In a short while, the sky would turn sky-blue pink as the earth turned away from the sun and the clouds remained.2013, Anthony J. Agostinelli, The Professor Was Dead, →ISBN, page 11:
  • “Sky-blue pink, what else?” Maddie pursed her lips.2014, Candice Ransom, Seeing Sky-Blue Pink, Carolrhoda Books, →ISBN:

Forms of sky-blue pink

alternative formsky blue pink
alternative formsky-blue-pink
alternative formsky blue-pink

Questions about sky-blue pink

What does sky-blue pink mean?
Sky-blue pink means a color of the sky at sunrise or sunset, with patches of blue and pink, or a gradient between them.
How do you use sky-blue pink in a sentence?
The summer snow capping the jagged summits was bathed in a soft sky-blue pink from the lowering sun.
What part of speech is sky-blue pink?
Sky-blue pink is a noun.

Words near sky-blue pink in the dictionary

  1. sky the wipe
  2. Sky Valley
  3. sky waitress
  4. sky's-the-limit
  5. sky-blue
  6. sky-blue pink
  7. sky-blue-pink
  8. sky-blues
  9. sky-born
  10. sky-clad
  11. sky-dance

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