dingy_orange colors

Literary analysis:

The term “dingy orange” in literature is often employed to evoke an atmosphere of faded brightness or aged decay, imbuing objects and scenes with a subtly grim character. For instance, in [1] a small disk described as “dingy orange” looms in a mysterious, almost otherworldly sky, while in [2] the color defines the unusual hue of a fruit, lending it an air of peculiarity. In natural descriptions, [3] assigns a “dingy orange” to the hind wings of an insect, and [4] uses a similar tint to illustrate the changing coloration of a mushroom’s cap as it loses its vibrancy. The color is further linked to the passage of time and exposure to elements in [5], where fossil ivory is stained a “dingy orange,” and in [6], [7], and [8], where bodies of water and regional landscapes are imbued with variations of dingy orange-brown, reinforcing a sense of earthy erosion or weathering.

Far away, above the blue mists and the jet-black trees (for they were out in the country by this time), hung a small, opaque disk of dingy orange.
— from Prince Fortunatus by William Black
The fruit is of a dingy orange-color, of an oblong form, about 8 to 10 inches long, by 3 or 4 inches broad.
— from Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
The fore wings are brownish-black blotched with yellow; the hind wings are a dingy orange.
— from Great Hike; or, The Pride of the Khaki Troop by Douglas, Alan, Captain
Pileus dingy orange-red becoming pale, often greenish.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine
It is of fossil ivory, stained a dingy orange from age and grease.
— from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
The color of the water is different; that of the Pará being of a dingy orange-brown, while the Amazon has an ochreous or yellowish-clay tint.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
It has a dingy orange-brown color.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
8); and yellowish brown, or dingy orange brown, in the north.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

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