Both Uses
tinged
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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- He had brown hair with a reddish tinge and his face was lean, his expression attentive, assessing.†
p. 27.1tinge = a slight amount; or to contain a slight amount
- His scent filled the room, that sweetish cologne, and beneath it was a smell she remembered, something medicinal and tinged with adrenaline.†
p. 245.7 *tinged = with a slight amount (often of color)
Definitions:
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(1)
(tinged) with a slight amount
(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)