hue

plural hues · alternative hew

1. countableuncountableA color, or shade of color; tint; dye.

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   A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

   1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 39–40

2. countableuncountableThe characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.

   In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.

3. countablefigurativelyuncountableCharacter; aspect.

   This puts a completely different hue on the matter.

4. countableobsoleteuncountableForm; appearance; guise.

plural hues

1. obsoleteA shout or cry.

alternative Huế

1. A port city in central Vietnam.

   Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.

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   Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.

   [1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60

2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.