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Day-Glo

American  
[dey-gloh] / ˈdeɪˌgloʊ /
Trademark.
  1. a brand of pigments and other products that exhibit fluorescence in daylight.


Day-Glo British  

noun

    1. a brand of fluorescent colouring materials, as of paint

    2. ( as modifier )

      Day-Glo colours

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Robert Overby‘s full-scale latex casts of ordinary L.A. architectural facades come to mind, as do Lynda Benglis’ floor-bound Day-Glo pours of liquid rubber latex, made in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024

Instead, as the story unfolds, she plays with the palette, the inaugural velvety blue giving way to the sun’s white glare, blasts of Day-Glo green and washes of red.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

ITV's gamble on the new format turned into a Day-Glo phenomenon and became, the childhood gymnastics champion says proudly, "a Saturday-night ritual".

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

Your little ones might not catch the spiritual drift of Lolita Chakrabarti’s workmanlike script, but they’ll delight in the Ark’s worth of Day-Glo fish, diaphanous birds and lifelike quadrupeds.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Sing of the weird smell the typewriter gave off, like WD-40 and salami, and of the Day-Glo flower decal the last person who’d used it had applied, and of the broken F key, which stuck.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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