bittersweet
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Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
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(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet (..)
(RQ:Alcott Pauline's Passion)
{{quote-text|en|year=1898|author=Lewis Carroll|chapter=Three Sunsets|title=Three Sunsets and Other Poems|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35497/35497-h/35497-h.htm
Of bittersweet color (q).
(senseid) Bittersweet nightshade ((taxfmt)).
(RQ:Gerard Herball) Bitter ſweet doth grow in moiſt places about ditches, riuers, and hedges, almoſt euery where.
{{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=Emily Carr|title=Klee Wyck|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html|chapter=18
A vine, of the genus (taxfmt), having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
{{quote-text|en|year=1935|author=Bess Streeter Aldrich|title=Spring Came on Forever|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500651.txt|chapter=43
A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
(RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)
A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
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