cold color
Americannoun
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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
Warm and Cold Colors.—Red and yellow are called warm colors, and blue is called a cold color.
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
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
Blue is called a cold color, because it induces a feeling of coolness to the eye, and is much used by nature in her cold effects.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John
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