"rose-tint" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rose-tint.ogg [Australia] Forms: rose-tints [present, singular, third-person], rose-tinting [participle, present], rose-tinted [participle, past], rose-tinted [past]
Etymology: Back formation from look through rose-tinted glasses Etymology templates: {{l|en|look through rose-tinted glasses}} look through rose-tinted glasses Head templates: {{en-verb}} rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)
  1. (idiomatic) To look through rose-tinted glasses at; to view or describe as better than it actually is or was. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-rose-tint-en-verb-vKz41w-i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Audio: En-au-rose-tint.ogg [Australia] Forms: rose-tints [present, singular, third-person], rose-tinting [participle, present], rose-tinted [participle, past], rose-tinted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} rose-tint (third-person singular simple present rose-tints, present participle rose-tinting, simple past and past participle rose-tinted)
  1. To tint with the color rose; to suffuse with a rosy hue.
    Sense id: en-rose-tint-en-verb-mEPpj2q~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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