melony shade
- noun
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color melón
- A melony shade of lipstick complemented her outfit perfectly.
Examples
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He chose curtains in a melony shade to brighten up the living room.
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The artist used a melony shade to add warmth to the summer sunset in her painting.
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The walls are painted in a lovely melony shade.
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I love this melony shade for my living room.
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He chose curtains in a melony shade to brighten up the living room.
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A melony shade of lipstick complemented her outfit perfectly.
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The artist used a melony shade to add warmth to the summer sunset in her painting.
Synonyms
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A pink color that looks a little red
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Surface Forms
Morphology
melony + shade
The meaning is directly compositional: 'melony' can be interpreted as 'melon-like' (melon + -y) and 'shade' denotes a nuance of color, so together they mean a color resembling the flesh of a melon/watermelon. This adjective+noun color-naming pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Melony shade comes from the soft pink-red color inside a ripe watermelon. The part melony points to 'melon' and shade means color, so the phrase now means 'a color like the watermelon flesh'.