underflush

noun

underflush

noun

Etymology From under + flush.

1

A tinge of colour showing through from beneath.

Honey-coloured all over, with an underflush of vermilion at the cheeks and lips.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 50:

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