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cold color

American  

noun

  1. a paint fixed to glass or to a ceramic object without firing.


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Using cold color — deep blues and slivers of white — Houthuesen conveyed the same inner exaltation.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2010

There is a predominance of cold color in winter and of the warm colors in summer.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

She felt herself, as it were, turning pale inside, but into her cheeks there sprang a cold color.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

That violet is a cold color as its rays are less refracted, that these differences are appreciable to delicate fingers.

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Day, Mary L.

Warm and Cold Colors.—Red and yellow are called warm colors, and blue is called a cold color.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh