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In literary descriptions the word “lemon” is often employed as an evocative color term that conveys both brightness and a subtle sense of decay or change. For instance, in one passage the “lemon-yellow” of a stem immediately draws the reader’s eye to its vibrant hue, highlighting nature’s delicate contrasts ([1]). This vivid color is further celebrated in a straightforward declaration, “Lemon Yellow,” which functions almost as a palette choice for high-light points in a composition ([2], [3]). Conversely, the adjective in “lemon-faced corpses” uses the color to suggest a ghostly pallor amid the harsh realities of war ([4]), while another narrative describes a fading “lemon-yellow” that underscores a gradual loss of intensity and life ([5]). Together, these examples demonstrate how “lemon” as a color enriches visual imagery and mood in literature.

Stem solid, enlarged at the top, lemon-yellow .
— 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
Lemon Yellow.
— from Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for young and old by Caroline L. Smith
Lemon yellow is chiefly adapted to points of high light, and has a peculiarly happy effect when glazed over greens in both modes of painting.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field
In and out of the ditch-like trenches lay the Spanish dead, lemon-faced corpses dressed in shabby blue and white ticking.
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane
Of course Wapoota did not understand the words but he fully appreciated the action, and the lemon-yellow began to fade while the brown-ochre returned.
— from The Madman and the Pirate by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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