Literary notes about burnt orange (AI summary)
Literary authors have employed burnt orange as a vivid descriptor to evoke warmth and depth across diverse settings and subjects. For instance, it colors tangible items—from a character’s distinctive hair shade and carefully chosen attire (as in examples [1], [2], [3], and [4]) to everyday objects like boards and handmade materials ([5] and [6])—while also enriching natural imagery in flowers and alpine meadows ([7] and [8]). Moreover, burnt orange serves as a unifying element in ambient spaces, transforming rooms and expositions with its intense, warm allure ([9], [10], [11], [12]). This multifaceted use underscores the color's symbolic resonance, blending the earthy with the vibrant to create nuanced, memorable imagery in literature.
- Look at that hair!—lac and burnt orange rubbed in, smeared, then wiped off with the thumb!
— from The Moonlit Way: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers - She was putting a burnt orange tam atop of her red-brown hair as she spoke, and then she slipped on a sweater of the same becoming hue.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North - His tie, too, burnt orange, from a soft collar and badly knotted!
— from Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl by Fannie Hurst - A silk scarf of a peculiar burnt orange hue was knotted loosely about her neck.
— from Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx - Material: Burnt orange double floss with black double floss for trimming three small wooden button molds.
— from The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book or, Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer - Burnt orange boards.
— from The convolvulus: a comedy in three acts by Allen Norton - The nasturtiums were blazing with burnt orange and carmine.
— from That Little Girl of Miss Eliza's: A Story for Young People by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird - In alpine meadows the flowers are burnt orange in color.
— from Flowers of Mountain and PlainThird Edition by Edith S. (Edith Schwartz) Clements - He stepped aside and Frey walked through a pale orange room, then through a burnt orange room and then into another pale orange room.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various - Cream, buff, tan, apricot, burnt orange—Let me come down and go shopping with you some day, will you?
— from Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell - Here and there is the dominant note of the Exposition, its pastel shades of burnt orange and red, and its indefinable blue.
— 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 - Frey went up the steps again and took his time going through the pale orange room, the burnt orange room.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
