CANARY-YELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canary-yellow mean? 

• CANARY-YELLOW (adjective)
  The adjective CANARY-YELLOW has 1 sense:

1. having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

  Familiarity information: CANARY-YELLOW used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANARY-YELLOW (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

Synonyms:

canary; canary-yellow

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

The postillions were flying canary-yellow ribands from their caps, those being the colours under which Wilson was to fight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Round his middle was a canary-yellow sash, and dainty little ribbons of the same colour fluttered from the sides of his knees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he entered Wilson pulled the canary-yellow handkerchief from his waist, and going to the corner post, he tied it to the top of it, where it remained fluttering in the breeze.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)