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🌸 A fragrant flower 🎨 A pale color
cottage pink

cottage pink

8.3
A small garden plant with a strong sweet smell and pink or rosy flowers
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • She filled a vase with fresh cottage pink from her cottage garden.

Examples

  • Gardeners often grow cottage pink along borders for a touch of classic charm.

  • I planted some cottage pink flowers in my garden.

  • The cottage pink is admired for its delicate fragrance and lovely color.

  • The cottage pink blooms are absolutely beautiful this spring.

  • The cottage pink flowers are known for their beautiful fragrance and are a favorite choice for summer gardens.

  • I planted a row of cottage pinks to add vibrant color and delightful fragrance to my flower bed.

  • Every summer, the cottage pinks bloom in my garden, filling the air with their sweet scent.

Synonyms

pink
vscottage pink
11 5.6

A small garden flower often with a nice smell and pale red or white petals

is the particular cultivated variety prized for especially strong fragrance
Dianthus plumarius
vscottage pink
  • Specialized
9.3

A small garden flower with pink, fringed petals and a sweet scent

is the common garden name used instead of the scientific term
grass pink
vscottage pink
  • UK
8.3

A garden flower with a strong sweet smell and pink blooms

is the common garden name for that cultivated fragrant plant
garden pink
vscottage pink
5.5

A small garden plant with bright, often sweet smelling flowers

is a specific fragrant European form rather than the broader genus term

Surface Forms

cottage pink singular
cottage pinks plural

Morphology

cottage + pink

The phrase is a straightforward noun–color combination: knowing 'cottage' (small house / cottage-associated) and 'pink' (the colour) lets a learner infer a shade/style of pink associated with cottages or the cottage-pink flower. Forming colour names by combining a modifier with a colour (e.g. 'rose pink', 'salmon pink') is a common, compositional pattern, so the specific shade may be new but the general meaning is directly derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Cottage pink gets its name from small cottage gardens where its sweet-smelling pink flowers were grown close to the house. That's why cottage pink refers to that fragrant garden 'flower'.