Etymology Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.
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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:
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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:
millennial pink
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Etymology Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.
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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: