Literary notes about dull orange (AI summary)
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
