Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coal-tar color: same as
maize , 3.
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Examples
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How well she remembered snatching up newly laid eggs one after the other and sucking them down so fast that the sun-yellow yolks dribbled down her chin.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Lord Aegelmar sat on the Thistled Throne, with Lord and Lady Inguilar standing in the place of honor at his right hand and a tall woman clad in the sun-yellow robes of an Illuminer at his left.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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It is the antiseptic experience of the hospital, where all spirits are reduced to their common physicality, where the very light is pure, cold white rather than fiery sun-yellow, which fills us with dread at the thought of undifferentiated love, because although all humans are worthy of fundamental respect and rights, we scarcely love them at all when we love them for their humanity alone.
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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How well she remembered snatching up newly laid eggs one after the other and sucking them down so fast that the sun-yellow yolks dribbled down her chin.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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How well she remembered snatching up newly laid eggs one after the other and sucking them down so fast that the sun-yellow yolks dribbled down her chin.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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How well she remembered snatching up newly laid eggs one after the other and sucking them down so fast that the sun-yellow yolks dribbled down her chin.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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His hand was the agitator that carried his senses up, over, and across before the spasms of his orgasm wept like the bullet wound that pierced her heart, changing the sun-yellow of her top into an ugly and bitter small rose-red Moon.
Saw Her 2009
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Electric sun-yellow, a color that made no sense outside a Crayola box.
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Hillary Clinton on the TV, dressed in a sun-yellow blazer.
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A hum and a muffled beat caroming through the canyon heralded his arrival in a sun-yellow jalopy, a conveyance that rivaled the chariot of Apollo depicted in my mythology book.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
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