Salmon Color

The frilled crest running from the back of her neck to just above her eye-ridge stood totally erect and was flushed to a deep salmon-color with pleasure and pride. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1999)

Just now they have cleared off every blossom out of the garden except my zinnias, which grow magnificently and make the devastated flower-bed still gay with every hue and tint a zinnia can put on -- salmon-color, rose, scarlet, pink, maroon, and fifty shades besides. ❋ Various (N/A)

The one showing a pale salmon-color upon an orange ground is much used. ❋ Various (N/A)

The amount of seasoning required will depend on the saltness of the oysters, but a saltspoonful of salt will probably not be too much, a little pepper, and a teaspoonful of essence of anchovies -- just enough to make the sauce a delicate salmon-color. ❋ Catherine Owen (N/A)

The flesh was deep salmon-color; that of brook trout is generally much lighter. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

A tint of salmon-color, burnished into long undulations of lustre, overspreads the shallower waves; but a sober gray begins to steal in beneath the sunset rays, and will soon claim even the brilliant foreground for its own. ❋ Unknown (1873)

The larger drawing-room -- the lawyer's consulting-room, very simple, hung with light salmon-color, was dignified in style. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

His sartorial style remains buttoned down, with a salmon-color crew neck ... ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

Seating is likewise two ways: regular wooden tables and chairs, and lower tin-top tapas tables with salmon-color plastic cone-base chairs that look like oversize hourglasses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His (that is, the elephant's) eyes were light blue, surrounded by salmon-color; his hair fine, soft, and white; his complexion pinkish white; his tusks like long pearls; his ears like silver shields; his trunk like a comet's tail; his legs like the feet of the skies; his tread like the sound of thunder; his looks full of meditation; his expression full of tenderness; his voice the voice of a mighty warrior; and his bearing that of an illustrious monarch. ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)