tertiary color


noun
  1. a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.

Origin of tertiary color

1
First recorded in 1860–65

Words Nearby tertiary color

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How to use tertiary color in a sentence

  • Hence, a tertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondaries.

    Color Value | C. R. Clifford
  • On the side-wall, russet possesses orange, and it also possesses violet; it is the tertiary color made of these two secondaries.

    Color Value | C. R. Clifford