color
/ˈkʌl.ɚ/ noun A1- The spectral composition of visible light. · Humans and birds can perceive color.
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. · Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.· What color are your bf's eyes?
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). · The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). · This film is broadcast in color.· Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
- Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- A paint. · The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. · Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
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Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
I can’t feel exactly perfectly happy because--well, what color would you call this?”
And isn’t pink the most bewitching color in the world?
Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another color when she grew up?”
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