tint
/tɪnt/ noun C1- A slight coloring.
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. · Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
- A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
Plural tints
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He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint.
The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.
Matthew was not used to deciding on the tints of ladies’ tresses, but in this case there couldn’t be much doubt.
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