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

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

With her pearly sails and the line of flame color beneath, she looked a dwindling cloud; a little while, and she would be claimed of the distance and the dusk.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary

A great head appeared, with eyes and mouth—yes! and nose, too—all a glaring flame color.

From The Tale of Solomon Owl by Bailey, Arthur Scott

The car which stood throbbing at the door of the hotel was large and handsome, as if made to match my cousin, and it was painted flame color.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl

The word 'Brazil' appears to have been originally used to designate a bright red or flame color.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes