flame color

American  

noun

1. bright reddish-orange.

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Other Word Forms

• flame-colored
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of flame color

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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flame color

The rainbow flame demonstration teaches a concept central to the curriculum of high school chemistry: that certain metals, when burned, produce a flame color that is characteristic to its chemical makeup.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015

This beautiful and well known eastern Oriole can readily be identified by its orange flame color and entirely black head.

From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)

Already some of the trees were taking on their brilliant garb of the falling year: flame color, fruit color, color of ripe melon, of oranges and lemons, of good cooking, and fried dishes.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

Would you think much of this place if you couldn’t be looking yonder and watching the clouds scud by, all turning to pink and flame color and purple as the sun gathers them in?

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

In her gay frock, which firelight and lamplight touched to a brilliant flame color, she must have appeared to one beyond the panes like a suppliant child begging pardon for some grave misdoing.

From Dorothy's House Party by Raymond, Evelyn