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pinks
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The plural of pink . 2 flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations. 3 The traditional scarlet jacket(s) worn by fox-hunters in the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of pinks.
I wear only soft pastels now, creamy pinks and pale blues and golds and soft limes, nothing bold and dramatic.
Floorboards black with age were either bleached and polished or replaced with gleaming new parquets, lovely Oriental carpets in pale pinks, tans, grays and yellow spread over them.
There were pinks and purples in the clouds, as though they were bruised.
If a white left a group, he or she was effortlessly scooped up and shunted into another conversation which might contain one or two pinks but was largely red.
pinks, meanwhile, were delicately passed from red group to red group until they were deeply pink, and then they were allowed to mix with other pinks of the same hue, under the supervision of a red.
In short, the pinks met so many reds, and so few whites, that they probably forgot about whites at all, while the whites, constantly alone or hugely outnumbered by reds or deep pinks, appeared to be going red out of embarrassment or a desire to blend in.