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Apart from spectrum-shrugging browns, greys, and whites, which seem consistent with the Modernist moment, fully adherent reds and blues also outweigh the compound colors of blue-yellow (greens), yellow-red (oranges), and blue-green (eau-de-nil), but with (for example) those loud assertions of violet these compounds are nevertheless forcefully present.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Apart from spectrum-shrugging browns, greys, and whites, which seem consistent with the Modernist moment, fully adherent reds and blues also outweigh the compound colors of blue-yellow (greens), yellow-red (oranges), and blue-green (eau-de-nil), but with (for example) those loud assertions of violet these compounds are nevertheless forcefully present.
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Presumably in readiness for the possible drinks reception, most of its furniture has been cleared out, apart from a couple of leather armchairs, an eau-de-nil chaise longue, and a huge mahogany bureau, all pushed back against the far wall.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Presumably in readiness for the possible drinks reception, most of its furniture has been cleared out, apart from a couple of leather armchairs, an eau-de-nil chaise longue, and a huge mahogany bureau, all pushed back against the far wall.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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A machine age, wipe-clean, eau-de-nil and white masterpiece just next to the station.
Archive 2007-07-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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A machine age, wipe-clean, eau-de-nil and white masterpiece just next to the station.
Welgar Shredded Wheat Peter Ashley 2007
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They had the ice cream eau-de-nil to follow but Wexford left half of his.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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Dyers had held lately at the Manor-house, together with a full description of the tea-gowns of salmon, canary, and cherry-coloured plush, lined with _eau-de-nil_ satin, which the Miss Dyers had worn on these occasions.
A Houseful of Girls Sarah Tytler 1870
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None of this is particularly subtle, but the film's swell of filial hatred communicates through fine acting and Ercan Ozkan's eloquent photography, a grammar of light that cycles from gray to taupe to eau-de-nil.
NYT > Home Page By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS 2012
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The Pod can even be specified in eau-de-nil or pink.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
ry commented on the word eau-de-nil
"water of the Nile," a pale or pastel-ish greenish color. See eau de nil
October 5, 2021