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Color:
Chocolate


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Colors with the same hue:
Brown
Mud
Quincy
Burnt Almond
Light brown
Cappuccino
Sandalwood
Metallic bronze
Copper
Ochre
Dingy Orange
Tangerine
Dark orange
Dull Orange
Cadmium orange
Hickory
Mocha
Sandy brown
Macaroni and Cheese
Nude
Seashell
Similar colors:
Russet
Caramel
Brown
Truffle
Sepia
Walnut
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Toffee
Sien
Golden brown
Deep Brown
Peanut
Sandalwood
Light brown
Bay
Earth
Antique Gold
Henna
Burnt Copper
Cedarwood
Kobe
Sienna
Metallic brown
Copper
Dark brown
Cypress
Metallic bronze
Tortoiseshell
Ginger
Coconut
Words evoked by this color:
brownie,  fud,  coco,  ganache,  cinnamon,  delectable,  dipped,  torte,  spiced,  spice,  browne,  mousse,  cocoa,  ate,  eclair,  chip,  ocher,  gauguin,  reconstruction,  outback,  seeping,  roussillon,  aborigine,  plateau,  aboriginal,  aborigines,  walkabout,  portraiture,  renaissance,  atelier,  pigment,  daub,  primitive,  provenance,  earliest,  prehistory,  paleolithic,  palaeolithic,  ladakh,  archaeology,  historica,  historicism,  ancient,  preindustrial,  paleo,  stratigraphy,  hermitage,  primordial,  stratum,  cubism
Literary analysis:
Writers have long used “chocolate” as a color to evoke rich, warm, and sometimes somber hues in their descriptions. In some texts, chocolate appears as a deep, sumptuous brown—one author contrasts eyes thought to be black with “chocolate‐brown” ([1]) and another refines the tone further by noting a shade “varying from brick red to chocolate brown” ([2]). The color’s evocative nature is extended to human features and moods, as when a child’s skin is compared to “the color of a cake of chocolate” ([3]) or a character’s hair is described as “chocolate-colored” ([4]). Even landscapes and abstract descriptions benefit from its versatility—a building is “painted it a despairing chocolate” ([5]) and a morbid scene is noted for its “chocolate‑coloured fluid” ([6]). Together, these examples demonstrate how “chocolate” functions not simply as a noun but as a vivid, layered adjective that enhances visual and emotional imagery in literature.
  1. Though spoken of as black, they are really chocolate-brown, but so covered with hair as to be very dusky.
    — from Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
  2. —This appears in commerce in many shades, varying from brick red to chocolate brown.
    — from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
  3. He was perhaps four years old and the color of a cake of chocolate.
    — from Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon
  4. He looked upon Hetty Pepper's homely countenance, emerald eyes, and chocolate-colored hair as a welcome oasis of green in a desert of cloying beauty.
    — from Options by O. Henry
  5. The owners had given up and painted it a despairing chocolate, suitable to the freight-yard life it was called upon to endure.
    — from The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  6. At the post-mortem examination a large quantity of chocolate-coloured fluid was found free in the abdomen and pelvis.
    — from Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins


Colors associated with the word:
Mocha
Espresso
Caramel
Chestnut
Coffee
Hazelnut
Mahogany
Walnut
Toffee
Truffle
Dark Chocolate
Milk chocolate
Words with similar colors:
choco,  ganache,  fudge,  tiramisu,  coco,  brownie,  fud,  espresso,  cacao,  cafe,  barista,  demitasse,  arabica,  godiva,  yum,  coffee,  treat,  delicious,  joe,  mocha
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