Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reddish-orange color of high luminosity but low chroma; an orange pink.
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Examples
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The frilled crest running from the back of her neck to just above her eye-ridge stood totally erect and was flushed to a deep salmon-color with pleasure and pride.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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The amount of seasoning required will depend on the saltness of the oysters, but a saltspoonful of salt will probably not be too much, a little pepper, and a teaspoonful of essence of anchovies -- just enough to make the sauce a delicate salmon-color.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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Just now they have cleared off every blossom out of the garden except my zinnias, which grow magnificently and make the devastated flower-bed still gay with every hue and tint a zinnia can put on -- salmon-color, rose, scarlet, pink, maroon, and fifty shades besides.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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The one showing a pale salmon-color upon an orange ground is much used.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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The flesh was deep salmon-color; that of brook trout is generally much lighter.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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A tint of salmon-color, burnished into long undulations of lustre, overspreads the shallower waves; but a sober gray begins to steal in beneath the sunset rays, and will soon claim even the brilliant foreground for its own.
Oldport Days 1873
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The larger drawing-room -- the lawyer's consulting-room, very simple, hung with light salmon-color, was dignified in style.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Guy de Maupassant 1871
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A tint of salmon-color, burnished into long undulations of lustre, overspreads the shallower waves; but a sober gray begins to steal in beneath the sunset rays, and will soon claim even the brilliant foreground for its own.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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His sartorial style remains buttoned down, with a salmon-color crew neck ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Seating is likewise two ways: regular wooden tables and chairs, and lower tin-top tapas tables with salmon-color plastic cone-base chairs that look like oversize hourglasses.
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