Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dull brownish-yellow in color; luteous.

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Examples

  • He saw a man middling tall, with narrow high shoulders, and a clay-yellow countenance, extraordinarily pinched through the temples, with minute restless black eyes.

    The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • The Bumpus flat included the second floor of a small wooden house whose owner had once been evilly inspired to paint it a livid clay-yellow -- as though insisting that ugliness were an essential attribute of domesticity.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

  • He would draw up with an ear-splitting screaming of brakes in front of the clay-yellow house, and sometimes the muffler, as though unable to repress its approval of the performance, would let out a belated pop that never failed to jar the innermost being of Auermann, who had been shot at, or rather shot past, by an Italian, and knew what it was.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

  • He would draw up with an ear-splitting screaming of brakes in front of the clay-yellow house, and sometimes the muffler, as though unable to repress its approval of the performance, would let out a belated pop that never failed to jar the innermost being of Auermann, who had been shot at, or rather shot past, by an Italian, and knew what it was.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • He would draw up with an ear-splitting screaming of brakes in front of the clay-yellow house, and sometimes the muffler, as though unable to repress its approval of the performance, would let out a belated pop that never failed to jar the innermost being of Auermann, who had been shot at, or rather shot past, by an Italian, and knew what it was.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • The Bumpus flat included the second floor of a small wooden house whose owner had once been evilly inspired to paint it a livid clay-yellow -- as though insisting that ugliness were an essential attribute of domesticity.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • The Bumpus flat included the second floor of a small wooden house whose owner had once been evilly inspired to paint it a livid clay-yellow -- as though insisting that ugliness were an essential attribute of domesticity.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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