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Color:
Dusk


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Colors with the same hue:
Black
Pitch
Pitch Black
Soot Black
Deep Space Black
Phantom Black
Eerie black
Tar
Iron Black
Coal Black
Coal
Asphalt Gray
Jet
Hematite
Tungsten
Smalt 
Philippine blue
Royal azure
Soot
Egyptian blue
Nearby colors:
Amethyst 
Dark slate blue
Ultraviolet
Sparkling Sapphire
YInMn Blue
Cyber grape
Blazing Purple
Midnight blue
Purple navy
Phantom Violet
Dark blue-gray
Violet-blue [broken anchor]
Medium electric blue
Royal purple
Denim
St. Patrick's blue
Mariner Blue
B'dazzled blue
Middle blue purple
Green-blue
Words evoked by this color:
gloam,  gloaming,  crepuscular,  surreal,  recombination,  photochemical,  spectrophotometric,  nonlinearity,  rarity,  mozart,  mythic,  ist,  amix,  geode,  amy,  amite,  amelia,  amended,  rare,  rarer,  amery,  vancouver,  adapt,  kahuna,  jolla,  swell,  seaward,  californian,  valparaiso,  adaptive,  mombasa,  rebecca,  aegean,  athenian,  sidney,  crip,  hyperlink,  sonic,  rewind,  urology,  autonomy,  comprehending,  cried,  cry,  cooled,  inquiry,  comprehend,  understandably,  understand,  communicator
Literary analysis:
Writers have long employed dusk not just as a marker of time but as a distinct, evocative color that imbues settings and characters with a transient, atmospheric quality. In some texts, dusk is fused with another hue to paint a visual mood; for example, the “blue dusk” in [1] and in the description of a woman’s hair in [2] creates a serene yet wistful appearance. Authors also use dusk as a subtle pigment when describing physical features, as seen in [3], where a character’s visage is rendered with a mysterious, shadowy hue. Meanwhile, an interior space is suffused with a “coloured dusk” in [4], lending an otherworldly, softened quality to the scene, and nature itself can be portrayed as embodying this twilight tone—as when the woods are set against the backdrop of dusk in [5] or even transformed into a “green dusk” in [6]. In these examples, dusk transcends its literal meaning to function as a color that conveys mood, mystery, and sensory depth.
  1. When the blue dusk has filled the pane, And the great pine-logs burn again, And books are good to read.
    — from The Lord of Misrule, and Other Poems by Alfred Noyes
  2. I watched her earth-brown eyes grow glad Because the round day was so fair; While memories of reluctant night Lurked in the blue dusk of her hair.
    — from Love's Old Sweet Song A sheaf of latter-day love-poems gathered from many sources
  3. Bamban's hands were lifted, his head thrust forward from his shoulders, thin lips protruding, and a kind of dusk about his features.
    — from The Last Ditch by Will Levington Comfort
  4. The churchyard was carpeted with dead leaves and the church inside was vague with a coloured dusk.
    — from The Lure of Old London by Sophie Cole
  5. As I look she tosses the water from her cup, and it falls in a great arc of sun-spray against the dusk of the woods.
    — from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland
  6. Close round, green dusk of dews!
    — from The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor


Colors associated with the word:
Indigo 
Lavender 
Mauve
Plum 
Charcoal
Amethyst 
Periwinkle 
Twilight Blue
Dusky Rose
Midnight blue
Heather
Grape
Words with similar colors:
twilight,  perry,  nebulous,  rhapsody,  deja_vu,  enveloped,  indwelling,  sappho,  beauregard,  indole,  contemplate,  soliloquy,  yearn,  contemplation,  yearning,  septet,  musings,  saturday,  phenomenological,  yearned


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