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

Running to the window, she saw darting through the trees birds of such a brilliant flame color that they seemed direct from the tropics, and their notes were almost as varied as their colors.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson

It has large maroon blotches upon a white ground thickly spotted with maroon, with a touch of flame color on the cheeks, over the eyes, and on the legs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

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

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