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

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 • Aug. 27, 2018

I created it when I spilled some cadmium orange on my linoleum tile floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

As, however, a colour has no business to be used if a better can be procured, the recent introduction of cadmium orange renders all risk unnecessary.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

In the same branch of art, illumination, cadmium orange, opposed to viridian, presents a most dazzling contrast, especially if relieved by purple.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas