sea pink

noun

1

: thrift sense 5

2

: marsh pink

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

The downstairs rooms, with their big glass windows that face, variously, the scruffy lawn, citrus trees, sea pink flowers or Mr. Measer’s vegetable patch, impart a trompe l’oeil nature effect, too. —New York Times, 4 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1731, in the meaning defined at sense 1