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blush wine

bləʃ waɪn
WordNet
  1. (n) blush wine
    pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
Usage in the news

Banville is such a beautiful stylist that I'm tempted to simply quote some of his most lyrical turns of phrase: a blushing character's face "is tinged with palest pink, like milk with a drop of wine in it". commonwealmagazine.org

Legislation to allow wine in grocery stores not as simple as it looks at first blush . urbantulsa.com

It's that glorious time of year when the shelves of wine shops start to blush, giving drinkers an option beyond the usual bipartisan selection. c-ville.com

Usage in literature

All the eastern sky was blushing to rose, which descended upon the mountains, touching them with wine and ruby. "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London

Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine. "Moby Dick; or The Whale" by Herman Melville

May Himera flow, not water, but milk: and may'st thou blush, Crathis, with wine; and fruitage grow upon every rush. "Theocritus" by Theocritus

You are blushing like the wine-glass, and also your sparkles. "The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1" by Robert H. Newell

Usage in poetry
And whoso seeks
In her dusk cheeks
May see Love’s sign—
A blush that glows
Like a red rose
Beneath brown wine.
Such the maiden gem
By the purpling vine put on,
Peeps from her parent stem
And blushes at the bridegroom sun;
This wat'ry blossom of thy eyne,
Ripe, will make the richer wine.
In vain for me the festal hall
Displays the wine-cup's blushing hue;
And music's swell, or faint, low fall,
Echoes, the vaulted chamber through:
Alike from song, and revelry,
I sorrowing turn me,—silently!
Unto the fields and flowers this flesh I found so fair
I yield; do you, dear friend, over your rose-crowned wine,
Murmur my name some day as though my lips were there,
And frame your mouth as though its blushing kiss were mine.