Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bright reddish-orange color, like that of clear flame from wood.
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Examples
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"You beauty! you beauty!" the girl cried, leaning forward impulsively in the saddle and pressing her cheek to the mare's neck where it burned flame-color in the sun.
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It was redder than blood-red as fire, and yet so strangely did the flame-color play through it that you knew no paint laid upon the skin could have produced the effect.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Ocean, whilst over all wonderful sunset tints of opal and flame-color are hovering and changing with the changing, wind-driven clouds.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
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Banners of gold and flame-color floated over the crests of the hills, flinging streamers of light down their emerald sides.
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"You beauty! you beauty!" the girl cried, leaning forward impulsively in the saddle and pressing her cheek to the mare's neck where it burned flame-color in the sun.
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At first I was shy of accepting, by reason of his coat, wherein patches of blue, orange-tawny and flame-color quite overlaid the parent black: but closed with him upon his promise to teach me the horsemanship that I so sadly lacked.
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Soaring streamers of red and flame-color arched the eastern sky like the dome of a mighty pagoda.
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Still later comes the big pear-tree that has turned, among barer boughs, to flame-color, and, in another picture, the very pale russet of the thinned cherry-trees, standing, beneath a grayish sky, above a foreshortened slope.
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Male: orange flame-color, the head, neck, and upper half of back black; wings black, edged with white; tail black and orange, about half and half.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
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A few scarfs of cloud, brilliant with flame-color, and every moment changing forms, seemed like winged spirits, half revealed, that hovered round the retiring orb.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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