flame color
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flame color
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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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
After a certain time they agreed to one thing: her dress should be flame color.
From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah
In one corner was a tiny adobe fire-place from which a tinier fire threw a jet of flame color on the Navajo that lay before the hearth.
From The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Morrow, Honoré
Turn it a little and it glows a bright flame color with green lights round the margin.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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
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