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cold color

American  

noun

  1. a paint fixed to glass or to a ceramic object without firing.


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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

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

That violet is a cold color as its rays are less refracted, that these differences are appreciable to delicate fingers.

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Day, Mary L.

She felt herself, as it were, turning pale inside, but into her cheeks there sprang a cold color.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

But at last there grew a little cold color in the sky and the sea took on a shade of gray.

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot

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