cadmium orange

American  

noun

1. a yellow color approaching orange.

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Etymology

Origin of cadmium orange

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

A loose cadmium orange dress was the strongest piece in a series of garments made of interlocking pieces of fabric that are held together thanks to zippers.

From Washington Times

There are the products of nineteenth-century chemical innovation—viridian green, cadmium orange, and the chrome yellow with which van Gogh was infatuated but which, over time, has begun to darken his sunflowers.

From The New Yorker

Backgrounds of lush cadmium orange and overall dimensions of about 6½ feet high by 10 feet wide, give the diptych an imposing physicality, but it remains essentially a kind of surrealistic cartoon.

From New York Times

The color of the gills is orange to cadmium orange, or sometimes paler, cadmium yellow or deep chrome.

From Project Gutenberg

Burnt Sienna, cadmium orange, Mars orange, neutral orange, and orange or burnt Roman ochre, are all strictly permanent.

From Project Gutenberg