cadmium orange

noun

1. a yellow color approaching orange.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cadmium orange¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

I loved all the colours, especially the cadmium orange, which was slightly toxic.

From The Guardian

A loose cadmium orange dress was the strongest piece in a series of garments made of interlocking pieces of fabric that are held together thanks to zippers.

From Washington Times

There are the products of nineteenth-century chemical innovation—viridian green, cadmium orange, and the chrome yellow with which van Gogh was infatuated but which, over time, has begun to darken his sunflowers.

From The New Yorker

Backgrounds of lush cadmium orange and overall dimensions of about 6½ feet high by 10 feet wide, give the diptych an imposing physicality, but it remains essentially a kind of surrealistic cartoon.

From New York Times

The color of the gills is orange to cadmium orange, or sometimes paler, cadmium yellow or deep chrome.

From Project Gutenberg