apple blossom
- noun
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color manzana
- For spring, she chose a bouquet of flowers that included delicate apple blossom colors.
Examples
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The walls of her room were painted in a soft apple blossom hue.
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The dress she wore to the party was a lovely shade of apple blossom.
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Her hair smelled like apple blossoms.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
43
1.0
A light red color like the shade of many flowers
21
1.0
A pale pinkish-yellow color like light pink mixed with pale yellow
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1.7
A light pink color with a little yellow like ripe fruit
How Pink
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'apple' + 'blossom' yields the flowers of an apple tree, and the color sense ('a pale pink resembling the flowers') is a direct, easily imagined extension of that literal referent. Such flower-to-color naming is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Apple blossom as a color name comes from the soft pink of an apple blossom. Because the flowers are very light pink, the phrase is used to mean a pale pink 'color'.