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- initialism A
mnemonic for thesequence of colors in therainbow :red ,orange ,yellow ,green ,blue ,indigo , andviolet .
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Examples
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It's not really that hard to draw a proper rainbow; even my 6 yr old knows about "ROYGBIV"!
But Where are the Blue Birds? Jen 2008
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But in his diagram he identified seven colors we’ve come to know as ROYGBIV red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
The Color Wheel, Part 1 James Gurney 2010
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The Rainbow Fountain will be displaying its "ROYGBIV" a little later as the sun streams down Ninth Street and through the fountain spray.
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The Rainbow Fountain will be displaying its "ROYGBIV" a little later as the sun streams down Ninth Street and through the fountain spray.
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A Halloween costume that goes the ROYGBIV Internet meme route.
Friday List: 10 excellent celebrity and pop culture Halloween costumes Jen Chaney 2010
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The five-color system proved to be utterly worthless, as it never dipped below orange or red on its ROYGBIV scale of fear.
HUFFPOST HILL - Happy 420 Eliot Nelson 2011
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And Charlie Crist managed to traverse both the political AND ROYGBIV color spectra by shifting from red to orange and now blue.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 29TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He can make do for a night with his summertime quilt, an old postage-stamp design in all the rainbow colors—ROYGBIV—in correct order, which my mother sewed for him before she died.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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A quilt with rainbow patchwork, ROYGBIV over and over.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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Note: I fashioned yesterday's riddle to contain a hidden acronym via the first letter of each line: ROYGBIV, the standard color order for a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
ruzuzu commented on the word ROYGBIV
Also see Roy G. Biv.
November 14, 2016