Definitions
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- adjective of orange tinged with yellow
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Examples
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At sunset the cliff glowed in the amazing color of the flesh of the Hubbard squash, a deep yellow-orange.
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Normally, in Northern Japan, the night sky is blocked out by the yellow-orange haze of light pollution.
Johann Hari: The Myth of the Panicking Disaster Victim -- and Why We Should Be Inspired This Week
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I added a 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansia (angel's trumpet - it'll have huge drooping yellow-orange flowers later in the summer), 'Prince' pennisetum (should make dark swords to 5 '), and a few trailing lavender lantanas.
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Instead, they are miracles of economy, each an expanse of a single intense color—yellow-orange, green, red—punctuated with sparse, fragile lines.
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I drink Cafe Au Lait at home, made with Cafe Du Monde “Coffee and Chicory,” which I buy in yellow-orange cans at the Asian market (of all places).
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The other three tertiary colors yellow-orange, red-orange and blue-violet don't have any widely recognized names.
Courtney Cachet: Take Your Home from Hot Mess to Harmonious by Understanding Color
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Trying to clear his head, Sisko stood quietly staring out across the water for several minutes, until the sun dipped below the horizon, the great orb linking up with the yellow-orange column of light it cast across the surface of the purple sea.
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Particles of dust wafted through the yellow-orange light, on their way to nowhere.
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The other three tertiary colors yellow-orange, red-orange and blue-violet don't have any widely recognized names.
Courtney Cachet: Take Your Home from Hot Mess to Harmonious by Understanding Color
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The fruit of the dracaena is a yellow-orange berry.
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
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