cold color

How to use cold color in a sentence

• She felt herself, as it were, turning pale inside, but into her cheeks there sprang a cold color.

  V. V.'s Eyes | Henry Sydnor Harrison

• Blue is called a cold color, because it induces a feeling of coolness to the eye, and is much used by nature in her cold effects.

  The Poetry of Architecture | John Ruskin

• And for this reason: Blue is a cold color, chilly in the extreme at some seasons of the year, upon certain surfaces.

  Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting | Mayton Clarence Hillick

• There is a predominance of cold color in winter and of the warm colors in summer.

  The Painter in Oil | Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

• The yellow clay-cold color of her face showed a faint flush of warmth; its deathlike stillness was stirred by a touch of life.

  Man and Wife | Wilkie Collins