dull_orange colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, dull orange is frequently used as a subtle, evocative hue that conveys both warmth and a sense of decay or muted beauty. Writers employ it to depict natural phenomena—transforming a sunrise into a “dull orange” sea [1] or evoking the melancholy glow of a fading twilight [2]—as well as to lend character to objects and settings, such as the serpent’s markings [3] or the ambient lighting of a city street [4]. Authors also turn to dull orange to enrich interior or ornamental descriptions, as seen in the detailing on walls and garments [5][6], and even in the intricate hues of living creatures [7]. This versatile color thus becomes a powerful literary tool, suggesting a quiet vibrancy that is both nostalgic and gently somber.

Just then the sun arose, turning the rolling sea into a dull orange.
— from The Literary World Seventh Reader
The sun had vanished, leaving a ruin of gold and rose behind him, gradually fading into dull orange and lead and blue sky and stars.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald
Then she opened her eyes, and saw that she had taken from the dark a serpent that was black with markings of a dull orange colour.
— from Bella Donna: A Novel by Robert Hichens
A short distance ahead, the lamps of a cab, drawn up at the curbing, made two dull orange sparks under the electric light swinging over the street.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
The domed ceilings are painted blue and tints of pink and dull orange are used on the walls and columns of the portal.
— 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
She dressed hurriedly for dinner, slipping into a tea-gown of dull orange that Cecil particularly liked.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives
Beak olive-brown, base of the maxilla and the entire mandible orange; iris hazel-brown; feet dull orange.
— from A Manual of Philippine Birds by Richard C. (Richard Crittenden) McGregor

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