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millennial pink en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a light rosy pink colour.
    • But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […] 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:

millennial pink en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A light rosy pink colour.
    • Millennial pink is a streetwear staple. 2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:
    • […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink. 2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:
    • Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous. 2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

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