FIRST BLUSH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does first blush mean?

• FIRST BLUSH (noun)
The noun FIRST BLUSH has 1 sense:

1. at the first glimpse or impression

Familiarity information: FIRST BLUSH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIRST BLUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the first glimpse or impression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails

Hypernyms ("first blush" is a kind of...):

belief; feeling; impression; notion; opinion (a vague idea in which some confidence is placed)

Context examples

She was gazing on it with the first blush of surprise when Miss Tilney, anxious for her friend's being ready, entered the room, and to the rising shame of having harboured for some minutes an absurd expectation, was then added the shame of being caught in so idle a search.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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