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cadmium orange

noun

  1. a yellow color approaching orange.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of cadmium orange1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

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I loved all the colours, especially the cadmium orange, which was slightly toxic.

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A loose cadmium orange dress was the strongest piece in a series of garments made of interlocking pieces of fabric that are held together thanks to zippers.

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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.

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Backgrounds of lush cadmium orange and overall dimensions of about 6½ feet high by 10 feet wide, give the diptych an imposing physicality, but it remains essentially a kind of surrealistic cartoon.

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

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