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Color:
Burlap


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Colors with the same hue:
Pale brown
Maple
Cobblestone
Pecan
Hazelnut
Fossil
Delicate Peach
Similar colors:
Pale brown
Dirt
Raw umber
Dull Brown
Somber Brown
Cement
Drab Brown
Hazelnut
Driftwood
Cobblestone
Camel
Desert
Fallow
Lion
Wood brown
Pecan
Shadow
Metallic bronze
Bark Brown
Faded Brown
Teak
Maple
Cappuccino
Dust
Antique Gold
Mushroom
Beaver
Hickory
Beech
Toffee
Words evoked by this color:
unwashed,  doppelganger,  jetsam,  flotsam,  sudbury,  knackered,  sugar_shack,  hemp,  hippie,  redwood,  sequoia,  ailanthus,  cologne,  incense,  steinbeck,  scarcity,  wasteland,  bayou,  moa,  damp,  dampened,  secluded,  morrison,  lichen,  bog,  mossy,  moss,  mossbauer,  motte,  murry,  humid,  fungus,  fungal,  slough,  quag,  middle,  backwater,  swamp,  decrepit,  unkempt,  wandered,  wander,  slowly,  gob,  mulligan,  untapped,  tunisian,  pyramidal,  alexandria,  minaret
Literary analysis:
In literature, the term "burlap" is sometimes employed not only to denote a rough, utilitarian fabric but also to evoke a distinctive, earthy color quality. Authors have used it to suggest muted, natural tones that evoke rustic settings and simple, unrefined beauty. For example, a dining‐room described as lacking “red burlap” immediately conjures an image of a warm, yet rough and homespun palette ([1]), while the use of “forest‐green burlap” to cover screens imbues a scene with an organic, almost camouflaged elegance ([2]). Similarly, walls paneled in “green burlap with brown rope for molding” ([3]) or the image of a hulking figure in a “burlap overcoat” ([4]) signal a blend of practical utility and an understated, earthy style. These usages demonstrate how the color quality of burlap—its natural, unpolished hue—can serve as a subtle but powerful tool in setting mood and defining character in narrative descriptions.
  1. I can't help feeling a bit sorry—since we have heard from Aunt Julia—that we didn't have red burlap in the dining-room.
    — from Wanted: A Cook Domestic Dialogues by Alan Dale
  2. The screens can be covered with forest-green burlap or cheesecloth.
    — from Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
  3. Between book niches above and wainscoting below, the walls were paneled in green burlap with brown rope for molding.
    — from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins
  4. "Nobody goes up there," said the hulking oyster-eyed man in the burlap overcoat.
    — from In the Control Tower by Will Mohler


Colors associated with the word:
Beige
Taupe
Khaki  
Sand
Camel
Tan 
Ecru
Fawn
Buff
Oatmeal
Wheat
Sepia
Umber
Sienna
Chestnut
Mocha
Coffee
Almond
Words with similar colors:
crease,  hessian,  dunham,  patted,  dryly,  silty,  barren,  nod,  near,  tepid,  substrate,  tope,  stubble,  thatch,  drier,  jute,  molt,  salt_of_the_earth,  secco,  sandman
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