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yellow-red

yellow-red adjective: of a colour between yellow and red; orange.

Adjective

yellow-red (comparative more yellow-red, superlative most yellow-red)

  1. Of a colour between yellow and red; orange.
    • The spar buoy is a red and white horizontally striped pole with a yellow top and has a yellow-red ball at the top and a yellow triangular flag beneath the ball.1953, Sailing Directions for Northern U.S.S.R., page 20
    • After a few days the silver appeared to become more colloidal and the sections were stained a yellow-red color.1953, International Review of Cytology, volume 2, page 86
  2. Consisting of yellow and red colours individually.

Noun

yellow-red (countable and uncountable, plural yellow-reds)

  1. (uncommon) The colour orange.
    • Obviously one will be red, but will the other hue be a yellow-red (orange) or a red-purple?1930, Benson H. Paul, C. A. Plaskett, Charles Nicholas Ainslie, A Method for Determining the Color of Agricultural Products
    • The cultural meanings associated with yellow and yellow-red (orange) are varied.2017, Jim Long, The New Munsell Student Color Set, page 33

Examples of yellow-red in a sentence

  • I'd been told many times that my yellow-red hair and peach skin were beautiful, that their contrast with my dark eyes was compelling.2008, Traci L. Slatton, Immortal, page 6:
  • Her yellow-red eyes reflected the torches on either side of her throne.2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8:

Forms of yellow-red

Adjective
comparativemore yellow-red
superlativemost yellow-red
alternative uncommonyellowred
Noun
pluralyellow-reds

Origin of yellow-red

From Middle English ȝelu-red, ȝolowhered, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), equivalent to yellow + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), Dutch geelrood (“orange”), German Low German geelroot (“orange”), German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”).

Questions about yellow-red

What does yellow-red mean?
Yellow-red means of a colour between yellow and red; orange.
How do you use yellow-red in a sentence?
I'd been told many times that my yellow-red hair and peach skin were beautiful, that their contrast with my dark eyes was compelling.
What part of speech is yellow-red?
Yellow-red can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near yellow-red in the dictionary

  1. yellow-necked mouse
  2. yellow-orange
  3. yellow-oranges
  4. yellow-rattle
  5. yellow-rattles
  6. yellow-red
  7. yellow-reds
  8. yellow-rump
  9. yellow-rumped
  10. yellow-rumped finch
  11. yellow-rumped finches

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