Definition of Pink

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Definition of Pink

Pink

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

To wink; to blink.

Half-shut; winking.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

A stab.

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

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Pink Quotations

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Diane von Furstenberg

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
Elizabeth Taylor

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
Christian Dior

Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!
Mylie Cyrus

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Gianni Versace

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
Hugh Hefner

Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
Jayne Mansfield

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb

Pink Translations

pink in Afrikaans is ligroos, pienk
pink in Dutch is roze, rozig, rose, rooskleurig
pink in German is rosa
pink in Italian is rosa
pink in Norwegian is rosa, rosa
pink in Portuguese is cor-de-rosa
pink in Spanish is rosado

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