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blaze orange

American  

noun

  1. a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.


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Department teams will wear blaze orange vests or jackets in safety-yellow, and drive department trucks, to identify themselves.

From Seattle Times Feb. 19, 2020

The Nationals have a need dressed in blaze orange, one so obvious it was in some ways the talk of the sport at the All-Star Game in Miami.

From Washington Post Jul. 13, 2017

The bill would allow hunters to wear swap their blaze orange for fluorescent pink.

From Washington Times Jan. 13, 2016

Deer can see only a limited range of colors, and blaze orange, however fluorescent or luminous it may look to us, reads to them as a matte green or gray.

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2014

So in order for people to see me and not shoot me he had also bought me a large blaze orange cap which kept slipping down over my face.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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