ˈpeach-ˌblossom
1. The blossom of the peach-tree.
| 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 198 March..Grape Flowers, Almonds and Peach Blossoms. 1718 Quincy Compl. Disp. 174 Peach-blossoms.—These are us'd only in a Syrup. |
2. attrib., esp. Of the colour of a peach-blossom, a delicate purplish pink.
| 1702 Lond. Gaz. No. 3835/4 Lin'd with a Peach-Blossom Silk. 1836–41 Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 889 The cobalt ore, called peach-blossom cobalt, is a hydrated diarseniate of cobalt. 1901 Daily News 19 Jan. 6/7 A soft, pale tone of mauve, almost peach-blossom colour. |
3. Name for a species of moth (Thyatira batis), from the colour of the spots on its wings.
| 1819 G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 250 Peach blossom moth. 1859 W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1862) 109 On the leaf of the Bramble feeds the caterpillar of..the Peach⁓blossom Moth. 1860 Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 25 What is this approaching, with its ten patches of rosy white on its olive wings? The lovely ‘peach-blossom’, certainly. |