burnt_orange colors

Literary analysis:

Literary authors have employed burnt orange as a vivid descriptor to evoke warmth and depth across diverse settings and subjects. For instance, it colors tangible items—from a character’s distinctive hair shade and carefully chosen attire (as in examples [1], [2], [3], and [4]) to everyday objects like boards and handmade materials ([5] and [6])—while also enriching natural imagery in flowers and alpine meadows ([7] and [8]). Moreover, burnt orange serves as a unifying element in ambient spaces, transforming rooms and expositions with its intense, warm allure ([9], [10], [11], [12]). This multifaceted use underscores the color's symbolic resonance, blending the earthy with the vibrant to create nuanced, memorable imagery in literature.

Look at that hair!—lac and burnt orange rubbed in, smeared, then wiped off with the thumb!
— from The Moonlit Way: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
She was putting a burnt orange tam atop of her red-brown hair as she spoke, and then she slipped on a sweater of the same becoming hue.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North
His tie, too, burnt orange, from a soft collar and badly knotted!
— from Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl by Fannie Hurst
A silk scarf of a peculiar burnt orange hue was knotted loosely about her neck.
— from Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Material: Burnt orange double floss with black double floss for trimming three small wooden button molds.
— from The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book or, Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer
Burnt orange boards.
— from The convolvulus: a comedy in three acts by Allen Norton
The nasturtiums were blazing with burnt orange and carmine.
— from That Little Girl of Miss Eliza's: A Story for Young People by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird
In alpine meadows the flowers are burnt orange in color.
— from Flowers of Mountain and Plain Third Edition by Edith S. (Edith Schwartz) Clements
He stepped aside and Frey walked through a pale orange room, then through a burnt orange room and then into another pale orange room.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
Cream, buff, tan, apricot, burnt orange—Let me come down and go shopping with you some day, will you?
— from Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Here and there is the dominant note of the Exposition, its pastel shades of burnt orange and red, and its indefinable blue.
— from The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt
Frey went up the steps again and took his time going through the pale orange room, the burnt orange room.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

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