ashes of rose

Etymology
From the fading color of wilted roses.

Noun

 * 1) A pinkish gray color.
 * 2) * 1883 (December), Julia C. R. Dorr, "Bermudian Days", The Atlantic Monthly, page 789
 * There are star-fish, sea-urchins, and sea-anemones, — gorgeous creatures in ashes of rose and orange, or in pink and brown with dashes of yellow.