metallic gold colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, the color "metallic gold" is often employed to evoke a sense of opulence and striking visual impact. Its use can be both literal and metaphorical: for example, a creature’s plumage might be described as having a fine metallic golden-yellow sheen that immediately catches the eye [1], while a work of art may juxtapose "metallic gold" with other vivid hues to highlight both contrast and harmony in its composition [2]. Writers also expand the notion of metallic gold into nuanced tones—such as a metallic golden green or a metallic golden-violet—that add depth to visual imagery [3][4]. At times, the color is used to create a sense of luminous beauty, as when nature or even hair is depicted as shining with a dark yet intensely burnished metallic gold [5][6][7]. Even as a decorative motif on porcelain, metallic gold serves to transform ordinary objects into symbols of refined splendor [8], underscoring its enduring appeal as a multifaceted color in literary description [9].

It was of a very fine metallic golden-yellow colour, and the feathers being long and narrow, gave it a very odd appearance.
— from Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker
Four of the panels symbolize Art; the others the "four golds of California": poppies, citrus fruits, metallic gold and golden wheat.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
Their main colour is "a metallic golden green, boldly contrasted with scarlet, black, and brown.
— from Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc.
Sides and back of neck richly glossed with metallic golden-violet or reddish-purple.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway
deep rose and grassy green and ultramarine blue; and, above all, one dark, yet brilliant and intensely-burnished, metallic gold.
— from The Seaboard Parish Volume 2 by George MacDonald
The flitter crouched in a vastness of red-ochre sand laced with some low-growing plant that shone like metallic gold in the sunlight.
— from The Stars, My Brothers by Edmond Hamilton
A floating veil, pinned with a wreath of orange blossoms, manifestly wax, covered the metallic gold of her hair.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
[19] Metallic gold has, of course, been applied to the decoration of porcelain in all countries.
— from Porcelain by Edward Dillon
But it was not pale gold, metallic gold, or flaxen.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

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