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
That violet is a cold color as its rays are less refracted, that these differences are appreciable to delicate fingers.
From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. Day
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
Warm and Cold Colors.—Red and yellow are called warm colors, and blue is called a cold color.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
She felt herself, as it were, turning pale inside, but into her cheeks there sprang a cold color.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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