secondary colour

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: secondary. a colour formed by mixing two primary colours

Example Sentences

Such harmonies I have placed opposite to each other; thus blue, a primary, harmonises with orange, a secondary; yellow with purple; and red with green; and the secondary colour is placed between the two primary colours of which it is formed; thus, orange is formed of red and yellow, between which it stands; green, of blue and yellow; and purple, of blue and red.

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Red is a primary colour, and green, which is a secondary colour, consists of blue and yellow—the other two primary colours.

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For a secondary colour, orange is well represented on the modern palette, and can point to some pigments as good and durable as any to be found among the primaries.

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By the bushes there is a double row of pale buff bryony leaves; these, too, help to increase the sense of a secondary colour.

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Red, yellow, and blue, being the primary colours among painters, green is regarded as a secondary colour, arising from the mixture of blue and yellow.

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