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
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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