Meanings (ES + gloss)
cobarde
Lacking courage.
What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
amarillo
Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.
Phrases
Apennine yellow-bellied toadAtlantic yellow-nosed albatrossBerger's clouded yellowDoctor YellowIndian yellowLeipzig yellowLucifer yellowMartius yellowNaples yellowYellow BookYellow Medicine CountyYellow RiverYellow Seaabsinthe yellowaniline yellowantimony yellowarylide yellowaurora yellowblack-and-yellow grosbeakblue-and-yellow macawbutter yellowchrome yellowclouded yellowcode yellowcommon yellow oxaliscommon yellow woodsorreldandelion yellowdouble yellow linedouble yellow lineseastern yellow robineastern yellow wagtailfederal yellowfull-course yellowgolden-yellowgrass-yellowgreater yellow-headed vulturegreen-yellowhalberdleaf yellow violethigh yellowhighway yellow
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amarillo
The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be c…
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