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As the name suggests, this endearing pensión pensió in Catalan opposite the ornate Palau Música Catalana opened in 2000, and has since slowly expanded to seven buttercup-yellow rooms and been renovated to make them all en suite.
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As the name suggests, this endearing pensión pensió in Catalan opposite the ornate Palau Música Catalana opened in 2000, and has since slowly expanded to seven buttercup-yellow rooms and been renovated to make them all en suite.
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Until recently known as the Hostal Poblenou though nothing has changed but the name, this charming, airy B&B is housed in a picturesque buttercup-yellow townhouse just around the corner from the Rambla del Poblenou – a lively boulevard with much of the charm and none of the tourists of its Old City namesake.
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Until recently known as the Hostal Poblenou though nothing has changed but the name, this charming, airy B&B is housed in a picturesque buttercup-yellow townhouse just around the corner from the Rambla del Poblenou – a lively boulevard with much of the charm and none of the tourists of its Old City namesake.
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What I want to know is, in what universe was Cindy's mustard-yellow dress "buttercup-yellow"?
What the women wore on the convention stages. Ann Althouse 2008
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When Cindy McCain made her first appearance at the Republican National Convention, she was wearing a buttercup-yellow shirt dress with a flipped-up collar by Seventh Avenue designer Oscar de la Renta.
What the women wore on the convention stages. Ann Althouse 2008
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If you're from Sarah Melissa, the fifth wife, there's a golden-yellow dot, which is causing a slight fuss as it's barely different from the buttercup-yellow dot for the third wife, Flora Clarinda.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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A hedge separated it from a buttercup-yellow meadow, and beyond stood three poplars in a group against the sky, three exceptionally tall, graceful and harmonious poplars.
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The valley-sides of dark trap were striped with white veins of heat-altered argil; the sole with black magnetic sand; and patches of the bed were buttercup-yellow with the Handán (dandelion), the
The Land of Midian 2003
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She was more histrionic than ever, flamboyant as could be, dressed in a buttercup-yellow sexy sundress, her beautiful hair down, her high heels clicking.
The Runaways V.C. Andrews 1998
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