lemonyellow

plural lemonyellows

1. alternativecountablerareuncountableAlternative form of lemon yellow

   Choice M.O.P. basket or bowl, shades from white to lemonyellow, lined in pink, frosted thorn handle, has small unnoticeable flaw.

   1955 May 29, “Choice Antiques”, in Hobbies: The Magazine for Collectors, volume 60, number 3 (advertisement), Lightner Publishing Corporation, page 63

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   Bad mushrooms, on the contrary, have a lemonyellow or a bloodred colour. The dark brown color of the top will not serve to distinguish the good from the bad, since it is common to both.

   1827 May 22, “Orfila on Poisons, by Stevenson.”, in John G. Coffin, editor, The Boston Medical Intelligencer, volume 5, number 1, page 304

1. alternativenot comparablerareAlternative form of lemon yellow

   Elizabeth Lowell groans by with the coffeepot into the kitchen and I follow, eye peeled for a chocolates box. The lemonyellow kitchen bangs my eyeballs and is boomerangshaped and cluttered. At the stove, Elizabeth Lowell stands overpouring boiling water from a saucepan into a dripolator and missing.

   1981, Donald Newlove, Those Drinking Days, Horizon Press, →ISBN, page 167

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   He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Shakespeare and Company, page 83

   And so it started. Sweet thick liqueurs in expensive hand cut crystal decanters, French Cointreau and peppermint schnapps from Austria, and they sat together on the lemonyellow sofa and sipped from tiny glasses and smoked American cigarettes, while Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, impassioned, rising at times to a fierce and agonized climax, came on records courtesy of Radio Prague and the Red Army.

   2005, C. W. Schuler, Winner Take All, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 164