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peach-bloom
(peach-bloom)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a matte glaze of reddish pink, mottled with green and brown, used on fine Chinese porcelain since around 1700.
a delicate purplish-pink colour.
Origin:
early 19th century
: applied to the porcelain glaze from the 1880s
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