Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monoazo coal-tar color produced by combining diazotized aniline with dimethylaniline. It is used for coloring butter, oils, etc.
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Examples
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Most of the day he watched bees burrow into wide, welcoming squash blossoms, covered with butter-yellow pollen.
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"When the days are crisp and I'm walking to my office and the sugar maple has those butter-yellow leaves - I just stop in my tracks," Zelonis says.
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His apartment was neutral, masculine gray, so the butter-yellow chair was jarring.
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At her words, they turned and advanced towards them, large, rainbow-coloured, metallic guns clutched in butter-yellow gloves.
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Are we expected to connect the chairs somehow with the bees in the park, with their butter-yellow pollen?
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Yvie was standing just below the orchestra making notes on the score as they played and occasionally conferring with the conductor, who was dressed casually in a butter-yellow polo shirt and black trousers.
The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010
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Walking past the butter-yellow leather chair and sofa arrangement near the window, Borys muttered under his breath, then set the tray on the low table, a four-foot-wide slice of red oak polished to a shine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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Walking past the butter-yellow leather chair and sofa arrangement near the window, Borys muttered under his breath, then set the tray on the low table, a four-foot-wide slice of red oak polished to a shine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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In vain she tries to remember the friendly voice, the soft hands, the scent of cookies, the laughing days at the house with the butter-yellow walls.
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Walking past the butter-yellow leather chair and sofa arrangement near the window, Borys muttered under his breath, then set the tray on the low table, a four-foot-wide slice of red oak polished to a shine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
hernesheir commented on the word butter-yellow
Do you eat this unwittingly?
December 6, 2010