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burnt orange

a. Of a dark shade of orange. n. a dark shade of orange.

Usage examples of "burnt orange".

Then Minnum broke out a bottle of naeffita, a jade-green liquor, whose smokey richness held hints of cloves, cinnamon, and burnt orange.

I could have destroyed _The Burnt Orange Heresy_ (such was the title I assigned to the painting), and torn up the article I had written, which would mean that the greatest opportunity I had ever had to make a name for myself as an art critic would be lost.

As we chugged across the bay toward the channel through the islands, toward the last burnt orange sunset line, the first stars were visible.

The eroded bluffs on the far side of the basin were gray and yellow and streaked with a burnt orange that looked like rust.

Distant, eroded mesas had yellow streaks down their shanks, which as they met the forest turned a burnt orange tinge that suggested the rot of rust.

It was a modest establishment of white walls, rust and brown plaid furniture with burnt orange carpeting.

The slanting burnt orange of the Massachusetts sunset struck his bald patch, yet he did not seem old, only wise and kind and quietly powerful.

The mother's dress he painted pale rose and blue, the child's blanket light to burnt orange, Joseph showing only a shoulder and arm of faded blue.