flame color
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flame color
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The rainbow flame demonstration teaches a concept central to the curriculum of high school chemistry: that certain metals, when burned, produce a flame color that is characteristic to its chemical makeup.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015
Orange -- N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame color &c. adj..
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
With her pearly sails and the line of flame color beneath, she looked a dwindling cloud; a little while, and she would be claimed of the distance and the dusk.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
He caught flashes of flame color beneath the gray and at her breast fluttered a knot of scarlet silk.
From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine
It was late autumn, and the forest was dressed in flame color.
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
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