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Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and the romantic.

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This restroom sign on an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767-300 uses pink for the female gender
A Bengali Muslim woman wearing a pink niqab.
The leader in the Giro d'Italia cycle race wears a pink jersey (maglia rosa)
The color pink takes its name from the flowers called pinks, members of the genus Dianthus.
In most European languages, pink is called rose or rosa, after the rose flower.
Cherry blossoms in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. In Japanese the word for cherry blossom pink is (sakura-iro), and peach blossoms (momo-iro).
Greater pink flamingoes in flight over Pocharam Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Rhodochrosite is one of the many pink gemstones.
The Greek poet Homer wrote of "the child of morning, rose-fingered dawn" in the Odyssey. Sunrise at Serifos, Greece.
In the early Renaissance, the infant Jesus was sometimes shown dressed in pink, the color associated with the body of Christ. This is The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Cimabue. (1265–1280)
In the 1280s, Duccio also painted the Christ child dressed in pink
A knight in red receiving a helmet from a damsel in pink, from an English manuscript of The Romance of Alexander (1338-1344).
In the painting Madonna of the Pinks by Raphael, c. 1506-07, the Christ Child gives a pink flower to the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the union between the mother and child.
Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France, made pink and blue the leading fashion colors in the Court of Versailles. She had a special pink tint created for her by the Sevres porcelain factory. This portrait by Francois Boucher was painted in 1758.
Emma, Lady Hamilton, later the mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson, had herself painted by English painter George Romney posing as a Bacchante, dressed in pink. (1782–1784)
The portrait of Sarah Moulton, popularly known as "Pinkie", by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1794). Here pink represented youth, innocence and tenderness.
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach by Louis Carmontelle. Pink was worn regardless of gender.
Queen Victoria in 1850 or 1851 with her third son and seventh child, Prince Arthur. In the 19th century, baby boys often wore white and pink. Pink was seen as a masculine color, while girls often wore white and blue.
Young boy in pink, American school of painting (about 1840). Both girls and boys wore pink in the 19th century.
Dancers in pink, between scenes. Edgar Degas
The Impressionist painter Claude Monet used pink, blue and green to capture the effects of light and shadows on a white dress in Springtime (1872).
Mary Cassatt, Girl in a Bonnet Tied with a Large Pink Bow, 1909. Oil on canvas (68 x 57.2 cm). Private Collection.
Mamie Eisenhower in her pink inaugural gown, painted in 1953 by Thomas Stevens
Shocking pink, a mix of magenta with a little white, was the signature color of Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
Jacqueline Kennedy, the wife of President John F. Kennedy, made pink a popular high-fashion color.
Pink lipstick is thought to attract attention and harmonize with flesh colors, clothes, and fashion accessories.
Sunrise in southeast Alaska. Sunsets and sunrises are sometimes pink because of an optical effect called Rayleigh scattering.
Sunset in Santa Monica, California.
Pink topaz from Ouro Preto, Brazil.
Corundum, or pink sapphire, from the Dodoma Region of Tanzania
Calcite from Bou Azzer, Morocco
Barite-Rhodochrosite from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.
Clinochlore from Erzerum Province, Turkey
Rough rose quartz
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah. The colour is from Navajo Sandstone, reddish hematite mixed with white quartz grains
Angel's Landing in Zion National Park in Utah is made of pink sandstone.
A pink sand beach on Tikehau in French Polynesia
Roast beef gets its distinctive pink color from myoglobin, which gradually turns from red to pink to brown (rare to medium to well-done) when heated.
Prosciutto hams also get their pink color from salt combined with the natural protein called myoglobin.
The shells and flesh of steamed shrimp contain a natural carotenoid pigment called astaxanthin, which turns pink when heated. The same process turns cooked lobster and crab from blue-green to red when they are boiled.
The meat of the salmon is also colored pink by the natural carotenoid pigment called astaxanthin.
A pink rose in the rain.
A clematis Chantilly.
A pink hibiscus from Australia.
Pink tulips in the botanical gardens of Moscow State University.
A pink dahlia
A pink peony.
A flower of a magnolia tree
A pink rhododendron
Spiraea japonica flowers.
A Japanese cherry tree (Prunus serrulata) in bloom.
Pink hyacinth flowers
Phlox paniculata
Casa Rosada, or the "Pink House", in Buenos Aires, built between 1713 and 1855 as a fort and then customs house, is the official residence and office of the President of Argentina.
A pink building in Vääksy, Asikkala, Finland.
The City Center in Kannur, India.
Ostankino Palace, outside of Moscow, is an 18th-century country house built by Pyotr Sheremetev, then the richest man in Russia.
Macau Government Headquarters (1849), an example of Portuguese colonial architecture and the Pombaline style in Macau.
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, built in 1927, was the first hotel on Waikiki Beach. Its pink color was designed to match an exotic setting, and to contrast with the blue of the sea and green of the landscape.
The Georgia-Pacific Tower in Atlanta, Georgia (1981), a modernist pink skyscraper.
Canada Place Building, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (1988) a post-modernist style government office building.
"big Pink" The US Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon pink granite and windows(ground breaking 1981 dedicated 1983)
The Norfolk Royale Hotel in Bournemouth, England was built between 1840 and 1850.
The Bahamian Parliament Building was built in 1815.
The Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul, South Korea (1987 to 1995)
Pink is the color most commonly associated with sweet tastes
A strawberry ice cream cone
Cotton candy
A macaron with raspberries
Bunga kuda (also known as bunga pundak) is a traditional dessert in Malaysia, containing a coconut filling
Chi chi dango is a sweet dessert made of rice flour. It is of Japanese origin, and very popular in Hawaii
Traditional rosé wines get their color when temporarily fermented with dark purple grapeskins
Pink champagne takes its color either when temporarily fermented with the skins of dark purple grapes, or by adding a small amount of red wine
In the United States and Europe, baby girls are often dressed in pink and white.
Boy in a sailor suit (1883). The blue sailor suit helped make blue instead of pink the color for boys in the 20th century.
Indian actress Shriya Saran. In many cultures, pink is associated with femininity.
Three nuns in pink in Yangon, Burma.
The White House illuminated in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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