complementary colour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Since the main character is red, I chose green – the complementary colour – for the pigs, who have stolen the birds’ eggs and are sheltering in the structures.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2016
Blue, as the complementary colour to yellow, is here absorbed, and hence the more energetic action of the blue rays.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
Where these lines cut the circumference is placed the complementary colour.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
If we deduct the last measures from the first, the difference of aperture will give the complementary colour.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
Let the complementary colour be its auxiliary, and not its rival.”
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
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