pink

A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.

Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something. He had the pink of sex about him still.

A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.

Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.

This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.

A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.

Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Having a colour between red and white; pale red.

Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

Having conjunctivitis.

By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.

The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.

Relating to women or girls.

pink-collar

pink job

To become pink in color, to redden.

The woman’s pale skin pinked as she shook her head. “No. It’s out of my budget. Come on, Sammy”

To turn (something) pink.

They are all nearly nude, pinked and bronzed by the sun.

The rabbits, still lining the roadside, but now pinked by dawn, craned their necks to follow her departure.

To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.

Because heating is relatively easy to perform once one is trained to do it, it can be assumed that any pink topaz from Brazil, the gem’s main modern producer, is colored more by man than nature.[…] Relatively few stones from Brazil have this trace element in enough quantity for what dealers call “pinking.”