hunting pink

hunting pink
a) scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters

,2005, Dont imagine elegant British foxhounds and mounted hunters dressed in their “hunting pink”. South Georgia foxhunts were just a bit different, Paul says. — Paul B Dunn, A Stroll Through Fitzgerald (ThomasMax 2005, p. 42)

b) The traditional scarlet jacket and related attire worn by fox-hunters.

,1965, the open-fronted and unbuttonable surplices worn by Christ Church men in chapel were designed, tradition says, so that hunting pinks could not be concealed beneath them. — Jan Morris, Oxford (OUP 2001, p. 109)


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