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Color:
Gentle Rose


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Colors with the same hue:
Sable
Burgundy
Oxblood
Espresso
Chili Pepper
Royal red
Shiraz
Roast coffee
Rich carmine
Cardinal
Crimson
Sanguine
Rusty red
Alizarin
Faded Rose
Pastel pink
Taffy
Light red
Similar colors:
Petal
Tooth
Pale Coral
Faint Blush
Soft Rose
Pale pink
Light red
Baby pink
Light Rose
Pale chestnut
Melon
Gentle Pink
Mellow Gold
Pastel pink
Pink
Tuscany
Light Pink
Delicate Coral
Rosy
Soft Pink
Soft Peach
Taffy
Faded Rose
Pale silver
Old rose
Burnished brown
Pale Orange
Pale Sage
Cinereous
Apricot
Words evoked by this color:
evaporated,  misty,  mis,  daw,  before,  milksop,  epithelial,  flabby,  submucosa,  anaemia,  subcutaneous,  faintly,  nervosa,  sensitive,  faintest,  faint,  fragility,  impressionable,  smattering,  fainter,  hypersensitive,  confession,  pitying,  nanny,  gentle,  shyly,  clingy,  fluttering,  flutter,  fluttered,  minuet,  meekness,  hypersensitivity,  fondant,  jejunal,  mucosal,  cartilage,  endothelium,  wan,  scant,  wishy-washy,  anemic,  neutrophil,  membrane,  anorexia,  weak,  weakest,  weakly,  frail,  weaker
Literary analysis:
In literature the term “gentle rose” is often employed as an evocative color image that suggests delicate beauty and fragility amid contrasting forces. For instance, one poet marvels at “the gentle rose” standing alongside fennel—a juxtaposition that underscores the soft, tender hue amid vibrant natural life [1]. In another work, the gentle rose is used in a metaphor comparing a vulnerable figure to a rose placed among thorns, highlighting both the inherent grace and the poignant sorrow of her surroundings [2]. Similarly, a description of roses in a hothouse scene uses the soft, gentle hues to create “fragrant visions of delight” against a stark, white backdrop, reinforcing the theme of tender beauty flourishing in an otherwise unyielding world [3].
  1. X O the rose, the gentle rose, And the fennel that grows so green!
    — from The Oxford Book of Ballads
  2. Just as the gentle rose is placed among thorns, so this gentle Virgin was surrounded by sorrow."
    — from The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Math Josef Frings
  3. A Hothouse where some roses blew, And, whilst the outer world was white, The gentle roses softly grew To fragrant visions of delight.
    — from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Various

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