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blush

bləʃ
WordNet
Short, blushing jacket of orange-red silk velvet, without fastening. Cut: long, tight-fitting sleeves cut diagonally to the thread. Gathered at the neckline and darts at the waist, creating a blouson effect. Unlined. Coverage of silk crepe in the same shade.
Short, blushing jacket of orange-red silk velvet, without fastening. Cut: long, tight-fitting sleeves cut diagonally to the thread. Gathered at the neckline and darts at the waist, creating a blouson effect. Unlined. Coverage of silk crepe in the same shade.
  1. (v) blush
    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
  2. (v) blush
    become rosy or reddish "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air"
  3. (n) blush
    sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
  4. (n) blush
    a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Illustrations
Woman, sitting on a chair, in an organdy blush, organdy pelerine with jagged hem. On the head a 'paille d'Italie' hat, decorated with feathers. A girl in a frock of 'ecorse d'arbre' embroidered with wool. Print from the fashion magazine Petit Courrier des Dames (1821-1868).
Woman, sitting on a chair, in an organdy blush, organdy pelerine with jagged hem. On the head a 'paille d'Italie' hat, decorated with feathers. A girl in a frock of 'ecorse d'arbre' embroidered with wool. Print from the fashion magazine Petit Courrier des Dames (1821-1868).
Shepherd's couple in a pastoral song to the tune of Florijmonde in blush.
Shepherd's couple in a pastoral song to the tune of Florijmonde in blush.
Turban of raw, natural colored silk and blush red / green changing silk. Lined with natural-colored cotton. Laiton interior.
Turban of raw, natural colored silk and blush red / green changing silk. Lined with natural-colored cotton. Laiton interior.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Humans are the only animals that can blush.
  1. Blush
    A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. "Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills."
  2. Blush
    A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty. "The rosy blush of love."
  3. Blush
    To express or make known by blushing. "I'll blush you thanks."
  4. Blush
    To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen."
  5. Blush
    To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. "To blush and beautify the cheek again."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
No one seems to know why people blush.
  1. blush
    To shine, as the sun.
  2. blush
    To glance; look.
  3. blush
    To become red in the face; redden all over the face: especially from modesty, embarrassment, confusion, or shame.
  4. blush
    To appear as if blushing; exhibit a red or roseate hue; bloom freshly or modestly.
  5. blush
    To be ashamed: with at or for.
  6. blush
    To make red.
  7. blush
    To express, show, or make known by blushing, or by a change of color similar to a blush.
  8. (n) blush
    A gleam.
  9. (n) blush
    A glance; glimpse; look; view: obsolete except in the phrase at first blush.
  10. (n) blush
    Look; resemblance: as, she has a blush of her father.
  11. (n) blush
    The suffusion of the cheeks or the face with a red color through confusion, shame, diffidence, or the like.
  12. (n) blush
    A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
  1. (n) Blush
    blush a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, &c.: any reddish colour: sudden appearance
  2. (v.i) Blush
    to show shame or confusion by growing red in the face: to grow red
  3. (p.adj) Blush
    showing blushes: modest
Quotations
Jonathan Swift
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young
Jean-Francois De La Harpe
We never forgive those who make us blush.
Jean-Francois De La Harpe
William Hazlitt
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
William Hazlitt
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
George Herbert
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
George Herbert
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. bluschen, to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan, to glow; akin to blysa, a torch, āblȳsian, to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse, to blaze, blush

Usage in the news

Coins generally cost more to produce than dollars, so at first blush replacing dollar bills with dollar coins would seem counterproductive. slate.com

Biel certainly isn't the first celebrity to color outside the bridal lines: Reese Witherspoon graced the cover of People Magazine in April 2011 wearing a blush Monique Lhuillier gown for her second marriage. koat.com

Their storybook relationship began as blushing teenagers, and 43 years and five sons later, Mitt is still smitten with Ann. kansascity.com

For that quintessentially great British taste, these gourmet sandwiches will make your blush like a strawberry with genuine mother's pride. channel4.com

How utterly refreshing it was in this era of curvy crossovers and bulkhead-shaped SUVs to slide behind the wheel of a car that not only doesn't blush at calling itself a "wagon," but actually resembles one — but in a good way. blog.nola.com

The Blushing Monday greeting card. harpers.org

At first blush, nothing seems more boring than talking about a new US patent office coming to San Jose. nbcsandiego.com

It will give your cheeks a natural glow that's just as rosy as pricier blushes. amny.com

BLUSH NO I never saw her blush. tnr.com

Conservative bungling of the F-35 file would make Monty Python blush. thestar.com

A hint of color blushes the eastern sky as the brush country of Deep South Texas starts to stir. team4news.com

And it occurred to at least one observer seated in the press box high above the Rupp Arena floor (blush) that the type of game unfolding between Morehead State and Kentucky Wednesday night was exactly what the Wildcats needed. kyt.com

Though should a fan want to play with their significant other, they can purchase the more, uh, hands-on "Red Room Expansion Pack" which is based on Christian Grey 's "playroom" in the series and will leave both parties giggling and blushing. ibx950.com

The 24-year-old son of Blushing Groom stood his entire career at the farm. bloodhorse.com

This variety complements the existing two white varieties: ' Musica Pearl' and ' Musica White Blush'. greenhousegrower.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since the variables 1/xi are easily seen to have infinite expectation and variance, our prospects seem grim at first blush, but then we notice that the variable 1/xi falls straight into the framework of the “stable laws” of L´evy – Khintchine, which is briefly presented below.
Mathematics of learning

Since the variables 1/xi are easily seen to have infinite expectation and variance, our prospects seem grim at first blush, but then we notice that the variable 1/xi falls straight into the framework of the “stable laws” of L´evy – Khintchine ([FellerV2]).
Harmonic mean, random polynomials and stochastic matrices

At first blush, the preferred value of ε above is also problematic.
Theory of Neutrinos: A White Paper

The fact that DNA is an extended, linear polymer makes it seem at first blush like a very different type of binding problem than the protein-ligand interactions discussed above.
A First Exposure to Statistical Mechanics for Life Scientists

Usage in literature

She neither blushed nor looked shy. "Nell, of Shorne Mills" by Charles Garvice

Alice, who had yielded involuntarily to the movement of Helen, drew her hand blushingly away. "Helen and Arthur" by Caroline Lee Hentz

She blushed and frowned. "The Love Affairs of Pixie" by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

She is very happy, and blushes when he looks at her. "Mistress Anne" by Temple Bailey

And if they blushed somewhat upon returning, it was an honest blush, which the present chronicler for one will not laugh at. "The Youth of Jefferson" by Anonymous

Tito had the youthful grace of blushing, but he had also the adroit and ready speech that prevents a blush from looking like embarrassment. "Romola" by George Eliot

She blushed very slightly and curtseyed very low. "The King's Mirror" by Anthony Hope

They stood in their places, blushing and laughing, and served out their dainties with hands trembling with delight. "Deerbrook" by Harriet Martineau

She was blushing as she turned to go in, she was laughing, too, to hide the blush. "Emmy Lou" by George Madden Martin

Once or twice Miss St. Vincent looks back, blushing brightly. "Floyd Grandon's Honor" by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Usage in poetry
See, see,
How you have meddled with the snowy clover,
Making her ivory
Blush like a lover!
"Mischief To A Bee" by Mary Webb
Like the blush upon the rose
When the wooing south wind speaks,
Kissing soft its petals,
Are thy cheeks.
"Love's Pictures" by Paul Laurence Dunbar Author object (533)
I’m as pure as the rose!
It is thus your soul speaks
In the blush overspreading
Your soft velvet cheeks!
"Alfred to Emma - A Rural Love Sonnet" by Joseph Warren Watson
I sent my love two roses, - one
As white as driven snow,
And one a blushing royal red,
A flaming Jacqueminot.
"The White Flag" by John Hay Author object (379)
The virgin glory of a blush
Made you more perfect flower.
Still must your rich humanity
Above me seem to tower.
"Immortal Eve - III" by Manmohan Ghose
Into my ear the blushing Whale
Stammers his love. I know
Why the Rhinoceros is sad,
--Ah, child! 'twas long ago.
"The Oneness Of The Philosopher With Nature" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Author object (258)