( uncountable, countable ) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.(As a whole, all-in sustaining costs (AISC) improved to an average of $911/oz compared with the $924/oz recorded in the first half of 2015). 2016, David McKay, “AngloGold to fire up dividend in 2017 as net debt cut a third,”, 15 August, 2016, The weakening of local currencies – in Argentina, Australia and Brazil – gave a blush to the financial numbers.1974, “April's Fading Carnation,” Time, 9 September, 1974, Superscript text The independence ceremony could not keep the blush of April's revolution, when carnations had seemed to sprout from every buttonhole, from fading.( figuratively ) Feeling or appearance of optimism.1968, “Light on Light,” Time, 10 August, 1968, Each painting consists of a white aluminum disk, sprayed at the edges with a subtle blush of blue, pink or grey.1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker’s History of New York, Chapter 4, And now the rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east, and soon the rising sun, emerging from amidst golden and purple clouds, shed his blithesome rays on the tin weathercocks of Communipaw.A glow a flush of colour, especially pink or red.1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion.1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume III, Chapter I, Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book 9, Chapter 7, when he perceived her industriously avoiding any explanation, he was contented to remain in ignorance, the rather as he was not without suspicion that there were some circumstances which must have raised her blushes, had she related the whole truth.
1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, Scene 3, Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege, Whom thou obeyed’st thirty and six years, And not bewray thy treason with a blush? An act of blushing a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.Compare also Old English blysian ( “ to burn blaze ” ), Dutch blozen ( “ to blush ” ), Danish blusse ( “ to blush ” ), Old Norse blys ( “ torch ” ), Danish blus ( “ blaze ” ).īlush ( countable and uncountable, plural blushes) Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen ( “ to blush ” ). From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan ( “ to be red shine ” ), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ ( “ burning candle torch ” ) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ ( “ torch ” ).
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