cottage pink
- adjective
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- They chose cottage pink walls to give the small living room a warm, vintage feel.
Examples
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The designer suggested adding cottage pink cushions to complement the pale blue sofa in the room.
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She bought a new cottage pink dress for the garden party next Saturday.
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The walls were painted in a lovely cottage pink.
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I love the cottage pink accents in her living room.
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They chose cottage pink walls to give the small living room a warm, vintage feel.
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The designer suggested adding cottage pink cushions to complement the pale blue sofa in the room.
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I love the cottage pink accents in her living room.
Synonyms
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A pale pink color like many flower petals
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A light red color like the shade of many flowers
A pale pink color used in design and fashion
A light color between pink and yellow
A pale pink colour often used for paint, clothes, and makeup
A very light pink color that is almost white
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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 as a colour name comes from the garden plant, because people used the soft, warm pink of the petals to name paint and cloth. So cottage pink now means a pale, warm 'colour' like the flower.