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Word entry · 7 letters

roseate

Best crossword clue

"Pinkish"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹoʊzi.ət/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeeorstStarts with REnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. of something having a dusty purplish pink color

Word origin

From Middle English roseat, from Anglo-Latin roseātus, equivalent to rose + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers of this lovely child.
  • On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
  • To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.

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