lemon-color

Skin pale yellow, or lemon-color, under ground; but greenish on the top, or crown, which rises a little above the surface of the soil.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

Of the following bridesmaids, one wore pink silk of a paler shade, one was in lemon-color, and the last in palest mauve, with trimmings of garnet velvet.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

Dinky-Dunk's face had become a kind of lemon-color, which is the nearest to white a sunburned man seems able to turn.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

The front yard of Dame Betsy's cottage was like a little grove with lemon-color and pink hollyhocks; one had to look directly up the path to see the eldest daughter sitting on the bench eating honey-cakes.

Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

It was five o'clock in the afternoon: the horizon beyond the harbor was turning lemon-color; -- and a thin warm wind began to come in weak puffs from the south-west, -- the first breaths to break the immobility of the tropical air.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

All the familiar objects of sea and shore had disappeared; this was a new world -- a world of fantastic shapes, all moving and unknown -- a world of vague masses of gray, though here and there a gleam of lemon-color shining through the fog showed that the dawn was reflected on a glassy sea.

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

In the west a band of lemon-color lingered, and above the stars began to prick through, great scintillant sparks, that looked, for all their size, much farther away than the stars of the peopled places.

The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

Of some gymnobranchiata the writer observes: "I never saw any living animals with such gorgeous colors -- the most vivid carmine and pure white, mixed with golden yellow in the bodies and mantles, and the gills of pale lemon-color and lilac.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various