american beauty

noun

Usage: usually capitalized A

: a deep purplish red that is redder and paler than hollyhock, redder and less strong than magenta (sense 2a), and less strong and slightly redder and darker than Harvard crimson (sense 2)

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an American variety of rose, periodically bearing large crimson blossoms.

[1855-60, Amer.]

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American Beauty,

a hybrid variety of cultivated rose, with deep-pink to crimson flowers.