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Rose pink

noun

Any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury. Synonyms: American centaury, bitter floom, marsh pink, Sabbatia Angularis, Sabbatia stellaris.

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"Rose pink" Quotes from Famous Books

... commence wax work: two pounds White Wax, one-fourth pound Hair Wire, one bottle Carmine, one Ultramarine Blue, one bottle Chrome Yellow, two bottles Chrome Green, No. 1, two bottles Chrome Green No. 2, one bottle each of Rose Pink, Royal Purple, Scarlet Powder and Balsam Fir, two dozen sheets White Wax. This will do to begin with. Now have a clean tin dish, and pour therein a quart or two of water; then put in about one pound of the White Wax, and let it boil. When cool enough, so the bubbles will not ...

— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... crystalline substance from Brazil wood, which he looked upon as the pure colouring matter, or as containing the pure colouring matter, and which gave red and crimson precipitates with many salts. Possibly some of these might prove more durable than the roughly made rose pink. ...

— Field's Chromatography - or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists • George Field

Words linked to "Rose pink" : Sabbatia Angularis, sabbatia