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Color:
Canary


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Colors with the same hue:
Citron
Acid green
Smudge
Quiet Olive
Limestone
Very pale yellow
Cream
Similar colors:
Straw
Flax
Buff
Soft Yellow
Jasmine
Shandy
Very pale yellow
Banana
Maize
Naples yellow
Buttermilk
Vanilla
Buttercup
Custard
Mustard
Butter
Turmeric
Chiffon
Dingy Yellow
Blonde
Marsh Green
Soft Gold
Menthol
Quiet Olive
Dark khaki
Sallow
Lanzones
Cream
Palomino
Old gold
Words evoked by this color:
shrove,  meyer,  sicily,  forsyth,  sulphide,  sulphur,  topee,  khartoum,  1914-18,  safari,  crikey,  kruger,  explorer,  expedition,  colonel,  tilley,  ypres,  rhodesian,  pant,  britches,  irwin,  vanilla,  frosting,  icecream,  ice_cream,  scoop,  scooped,  flavoring,  cake,  pudding,  churn,  shortening,  buttered,  navaho,  navajo,  hogan,  nan,  brigitte,  marilyn,  haired,  hairdresser,  bouffant,  perm,  coiffure,  keratin,  hair,  hairdo,  hairstyle,  braid,  ponytail
Literary analysis:
In literature, "canary" takes on a myriad of symbolic and descriptive roles that enrich the texture of a narrative. Often, its vibrant hue is employed to evoke warmth, beauty, and even ethereal quality, as in the depiction of gas-lamps glimmering a canary gold or green [1] and instances where characters are likened to the bright, delicate bird [2]. Its song and fragile presence further serve as metaphors for vulnerability and a yearning for freedom, as seen when a canary calls tenderly to its offspring [3]. Additionally, the term is sometimes extended metaphorically to represent traits such as timidity or betrayal, where a person might be compared to a canary, highlighting a duality of innocence and precariousness within human character.
  1. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.
    — from Howards End by E. M. Forster
  2. They had spared nothing, neither columns, nor cornices, and my poor little friend was as yellow as a canary.
    — from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children "Come away, my dears!
    — from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll


Colors associated with the word:
Yellow 
Lemon
Gold 
Amber 
Sunflower
Mustard
Daffodil
Buttercup
Honey
Saffron
Citrine
Marigold
Pineapple
Maize 
Goldenrod
Banana
Words with similar colors:
lemma,  serin,  illuminating,  aquino,  yolanda,  fellow,  yea,  yell,  mimosa,  sunshine,  buttercup,  yappy,  yelled,  grinned,  grinning,  yield,  jaundice,  cautious,  pee,  sunny
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