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PALE YELLOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pale yellow" is a kind of...):
yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)
Context examples:
A pale yellow to pink colored, crystalline solid nitrosamine that turns green or orange when exposed to light and emits very toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.
(N-Methyl-N-nitro-N-Nitrosoguanidine, NCI Thesaurus)
The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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