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My grandmother always used to say "sky-blue pink". Has anyone else heard of this expression, and would you say it was a kind of lavender shade?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The earliest-recorded version of this fantasy colour was created by the British writer, Gerald Kersh, in a book published in 1942. He wrote this of one of his characters, "Bill could swear that black was white and green was sky-blue-pink." All the versions with polka-dots etc were simply variants on that original.
The Oxford Dictionary records examples of "sky blue pink" as early as 1880. One meaning of "sky blue pink" is a colour "sometimes compared to a sky at sunset". The alternative meaning is "an imaginary colour". In my Stockport childhood, the imaginary colour was always "sky blue pink with a yellow border".