Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coal-tar color, consisting of the sodium salts of the sulphonic acids of amido-azobenzene or aniline yellow.
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Examples
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At Louis Vuitton, icy-blue bags and acid-yellow mules complement nipped-waist dresses drowning in oversize plastic daisies and peekaboo broderie anglaise.
The Look of Spring 2012
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Bright and beautifulTeam summer bedding sunflowers and osteospermums with acid-yellow perennial foliage plants for aguaranteed lift to even the dingiest windowsill.
Window box ideas 2010
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George could see the beady eyes and the acid-yellow teeth.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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George could see the beady eyes and the acid-yellow teeth.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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George could see the beady eyes and the acid-yellow teeth.
Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010
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Today was orange, green, pink and acid-yellow checks, over which she was wearing a bright scarlet waistcoat.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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However Michelle's acid-yellow Thakoon was fabulous.
"I'm sure Macca's new lady-friend Nancy Shevell is a very nice woman..." Ann Althouse 2009
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"You, " said the boldest, flirting acid-yellow hair at him.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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"You, " said the boldest, flirting acid-yellow hair at him.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Before I reflexively blurted out a stock response like "naked in a car crash with the tunage cranked to eleven" I paused and thought of a person like me, growing up in a flower-free part of the world and driving to the ocean in a little blue sports car won on a game show, down south to California, and admiring an acid-yellow field of zinnias.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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