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pastel

[pa-stel, pas-tl] / pæˈstɛl, ˈpæs tl /
ADJECTIVE
muted in color
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Elsewhere in Haute Couture Week, Puerto Rican music star Bad Bunny sat front row for the Schiaparelli show in a pastel yellow-coloured suit and a tie of plaited golden strands.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

The exquisite lighting, shifting with pastel shades of Spielbergian wonder, lent a cinematic quality that felt appropriate to a stage named in honor of composer and conductor John Williams.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

My mother had spent her final days in eager anticipation of pastel sunsets in desert skies.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Alexa sleeps in a four-poster bed topped with a pastel pink canopy and ruffly white edges.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio




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