Carnation

The tall man wore a pink carnation in his lapel.

One would have taken her for a little angel, she was so beautiful; for her swooning had not dimmed the brightness of her complexion: her cheeks were carnation, and her lips coral.

This is a carnation.

He pinned a carnation to his jacket.

Tom called John a "pansy" and got a punch in the face -- now his nose looks like a crushed carnation.

The revolution that took place in Portugal on April 25, 1974, became known as the "Carnation Revolution".

He was seen at his best on Sunday, when, clothed in a complete suit of black, with a single carnation in his buttonhole, and with an irreproachable silk hat, he promenaded with Madame Arbique on his arm.

“Howdy-do!” said I aloud to the fattest and reddest carnation that overtopped all the rest.

And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.