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Color:
Misty rose


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Colors with the same hue:
Molasses
Dark Chocolate
Cabernet
Old burgundy
Currant
Persian plum
Prune
Chianti
Wine red
Upsdell red
Cherry Red
Wenge
Stop red
Alizarin Crimson
Rose Red
Scarlet 
Tractor red
Deep chestnut
Imperial red
Red 
Similar colors:
Gentle Rose
Faint Blush
Wan Pink
Petal
Whisper Pink
Washed-Out Pink
Lotion pink
Shell Pink
Frosty Pink
Subtle Peach
Pale Coral
Rose Quartz
Light red
Millennial Pink
Tooth
Soft Rose
Baby pink
Tea rose
Faint Peach
Light Rose
Words evoked by this color:
evaporated,  misty,  mis,  milksop,  epithelial,  flabby,  submucosa,  anaemia,  subcutaneous,  fondant,  faintly,  nervosa,  sensitive,  faintest,  faint,  fragility,  impressionable,  smattering,  fainter,  hypersensitive,  confession,  pitying,  nanny,  gentle,  shyly,  clingy,  fluttering,  flutter,  fluttered,  minuet,  meekness,  hypersensitivity,  jejunal,  mucosal,  cartilage,  endothelium,  wan,  scant,  wishy-washy,  anemic,  neutrophil,  membrane,  anorexia,  weak,  weakest,  weakly,  frail,  weaker,  miniscule,  flimsy
Literary analysis:
The color "misty rose" is often employed in literature to evoke a delicate, subtle atmosphere through its gentle, pinkish hue. In one example, the phrase "something white and misty rose up out of the water" uses the color to create an ethereal, almost ghostly ambiance as a mysterious object emerges from a watery scene [1]. Similarly, describing the light as "misty rose-coloured" as it fills a room at sunset imbues the setting with warmth and a dreamlike quality, enhancing the mood with its soft, romantic glow [2].
  1. When we got just there, something white and misty rose up out of the water.
    — from Our Little Swedish Cousin by Claire Martha Coburn
  2. The misty rose-coloured light of the setting sun filled the room.
    — from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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