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salmon pink

salmon pink

noun

  1. Sometimes shortened tosalmon
    1. a yellowish-pink colour, sometimes with an orange tinge
    2. ( as adjective )

      a salmon-pink hat

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of salmon pink1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

The vociferous nightjars likewise have laid upon the bare ground their salmon-pink eggs with strawberry-coloured markings.

Of all the varieties, my favorites are the snowy white, and the salmon-pink with the dark red eye.

A gentle afterglow of salmon-pink rested over the palace and city; the forest turned to a frame of smoky, brownish black.

The colour ranged at first from light heliotrope to flatman's blue, but later was standardized as salmon pink.

She stood near the window, in the pale band of brightness, arranging some salmon-pink geraniums in a shallow porcelain bowl.

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