canary-coloured

Between them is Rogers, whose get-up – turquoise shirt, orange sweater and splendid, canary-coloured socks – reminds me of Madrid airport's brightly coloured Terminal 4, for which Harbour was lead architect, winning the practice the 2006 Stirling prize.

Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour 2012

We have dinner-parties, and drive out in the coach-and-four the footmen put on their newest canary-coloured liveries; we drink claret and champagne as if we were accustomed to it every day.

Vanity Fair 2006

Everything on the table was in silver too, and two footmen, with red hair and canary-coloured liveries, stood on either side of the sideboard.

Vanity Fair 2006

He was dressed like the others in a girdled chaga of coarse serge, but wore a red cap turned up over the ears with fine fur, a silver inkhorn, and a Yarkand knife in a chased silver sheath in his girdle, and canary-coloured leather shoes with turned-up points.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

His plumage, however, is different, for he has a dusky black tail coat and a pale canary-coloured waistcoat.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

But he was wonderfully got up; as sprig and spruce as a man of forty, with his canary-coloured lady in Kensington.

The Years 2004

The very earth is a velvety red brown, and the butterflies — which abound — show themselves off in the sunlight, in their canary-coloured, crimson, and peacock-blue liveries, to perfection.

Travels in West Africa 2003

One afternoon there arrived a venerable dowager in a gorgeous canary-coloured chariot, attended by her two colossal footmen.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

As we approached _feux de joie_ announced our arrival, and at his gate stood Sultan Salàh to greet us, clad in a long robe of canary-coloured silk, and with a white silk turban twisted around his swarthy brow.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Jews had rather a bad time, if local subjects, as their black slippers and furtive bearing outside their own quarter made them a mark for naughty little boys, who flung their canary-coloured slippers at them with curses and imprecations deserving a more direct and personal application of their footgear.

Pan-Islam