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
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
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
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
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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