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Color:
Butter


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Colors with the same hue:
Antique bronze
Spanish bistre
Peat
Muddy Yellow
Brass
Phantom Gray
Citrine
Turmeric
Vegas gold
Mountain Gray
Dingy Yellow
Medium yellow
Vivid yellow
Middle yellow
Dazzling Yellow
Aureolin
Canary yellow
Yellow 
Yellow rose
Banana
Nearby colors:
Medium champagne
Vanilla
Buttermilk
Blonde
Banana Mania
Custard
Lemon meringue
Palomino
Pale goldenrod
Light Ivory
Washed-Out Yellow
Sallow
Lemon chiffon
Peach
Baby Yellow
Dutch white
Pale spring bud
Spring green 
Wheat
Cream
Words evoked by this color:
churn,  shortening,  buttered,  vanilla,  frosting,  icecream,  ice_cream,  scoop,  scooped,  flavoring,  cake,  pudding,  roti,  wheaton,  navaho,  navajo,  hogan,  nan,  brigitte,  hairdresser,  bouffant,  perm,  coiffure,  keratin,  hair,  hairdo,  hairstyle,  braid,  marilyn,  haired,  ponytail,  wig,  emerge,  burgeoning,  undressed,  undressing,  fingertip,  revealing,  make-up,  make_up,  makeup,  apricot,  apricate,  oyster,  miracle,  impearled,  bivalve,  pearly,  abalone,  mollusk
Literary analysis:
In literature the color “butter” is sometimes invoked as a subtle indicator of tone and quality beyond its literal edible meaning. For example, one passage contrasts butter enriched with added coloring against the “natural white butter of the goat,” using the hue to evoke a sense of visual appeal and sumptuousness [1]. Similarly, another reference draws attention to the pristine, almost stark whiteness of goat’s milk butter—emphasizing purity and a distinctive color quality that can stand in contrast to the common creamy yellows associated with traditional butter [2]. In these instances, authors use the color connotations of butter to deepen sensory detail and to evoke a broader atmosphere of warmth and domestic comfort.
  1. It looks like good butter and, with the added coloring matter, more palatable than the natural white butter of the goat.
    — from Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska by Rockwell Kent
  2. Butter is now and then made of goat's milk; but it is very strong, and quite as white as that made of the milk of the rein-deer.
    — from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2 by Carl von Linné


Colors associated with the word:
Buttercream
Buttercup
Butter
Words with similar colors:
pone,  margarine,  madeleine,  gratin,  schmaltz,  corn,  chick,  daffodil,  custard,  21-22,  out,  bluebird,  arise,  off,  down,  lot,  bear,  time,  with,  over


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