purplish pink

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   a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino

   Synonymssolferino

   Broaderpink

Questions about purplish pink

What does purplish pink mean?

purplish pink means "a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino".

What is another word for purplish pink?

Close synonyms include solferino. 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 purplish pink a common word?

purplish 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.