pink flamingos
Coral wading birds
Pink flamingos are the plastic lawn ornaments that became icons of American suburban kitsch.
Introduced in the 1950s, they represent either cheerful tackiness or ironic commentary on middle-class taste, depending on who's displaying them.
Their yard was full of pink flamingos and garden gnomes.
The phrase sometimes refers to the actual birds—tall wading birds with distinctive rosy plumage—but the plastic version dominates popular imagination.
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
- wading birdFowl of shallow waters
- wadingTraversing shallow water on foot
- feathersBird's lightweight covering
- lagoonSheltered coastal shallows
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- flamingo sanctuarywading pools, wetlands, feeding stations, breeding grounds, lagoons
- Kitschkitsch, kitschy, tacky, gaudy, garish
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