blushes
/ˈblʌʃɪz/ noun C2- Embarrassment.
From the library
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
“My blushes, Watson!” Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice.
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