The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blush \Blush\, n.
1. A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a
sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
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The rosy blush of love. --Trumbull.
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2. A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
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Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
--Lyttleton.
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At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first
appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they
had been ships come from France." --Hakluyt.
Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc.,
than of material things. "All purely identical
propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,"
etc. --Locke.
To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put
to shame.
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