cold color
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Using cold color — deep blues and slivers of white — Houthuesen conveyed the same inner exaltation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
A southern room, on the other hand, gives so much sunlight that counteracting wall treatments in cold color are permissible.
From Color Value by Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins)
They were bolder and handsomer than the minister's, but the girl had a feeling that they were the very same cold color.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Hill, Grace Livingston
There is a predominance of cold color in winter and of the warm colors in summer.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh
In this aspect we look upon the cold color of the "Dead Christ" as hardly a defect; it is in keeping with the sad solemnity of the scene.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
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