cottage pink

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   European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers

   Synonymsgrass pinkDianthus plumarius

   Broaderpink

Questions about cottage pink

What does cottage pink mean?

cottage pink means "European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers".

What is another word for cottage pink?

Close synonyms include grass pink, Dianthus plumarius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cottage pink a common word?

cottage pink is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.