cold color
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Using cold color — deep blues and slivers of white — Houthuesen conveyed the same inner exaltation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
But at last there grew a little cold color in the sky and the sea took on a shade of gray.
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
A southern room, on the other hand, gives so much sunlight that counteracting wall treatments in cold color are permissible.
From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford
In this aspect we look upon the cold color of the "Dead Christ" as hardly a defect; it is in keeping with the sad solemnity of the scene.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
They were bolder and handsomer than the minister's, but the girl had a feeling that they were the very same cold color.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill
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