In literature, royal green is often employed as a vivid and versatile color, symbolizing regality, distinction, and artistic flair. Writers use the hue to evoke a sense of honor and status—for example, the color of a soldier’s plume, which marks military rank ([1], [2]), and as an ingredient in painterly mixtures where medium royal green is carefully blended with chrome yellow and lamp black ([3]). Its visual appeal is further accentuated in descriptions of objects imbued with a majestic glow—a door draped in royal green fabric heralds the entrance of nobility ([4], [5]), while a flag rendered in royal green, punctuated with white salamanders, underscores national symbolism ([6]). Even when applied to clothing, as in a robe featuring rich accents of royal green ([7]), or discussed in terms of pigment depth closely linked to olive hues ([8]), the color consistently enriches narratives with layers of aesthetic and symbolic meaning.
- On his head he wore only a plume of royal green feathers, a badge of his military rank.
— from The True Story Book
- When the Spaniards were first admitted to an audience with Montezuma, he wore no other ornament on his head than a panache of plumes of royal green.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864
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- Tea Green. —Medium royal green, chrome yellow, and lamp black, added to white lead, will give this colour.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing
A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings
- Then a door draped with royal green opened, and in came the fair and girlish Princess Ozma, who now greeted her guests in person for the first time.
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
- Then a door draped with royal green opened, and in came the fair and girlish Princess Ozma, who now greeted her guests in person for the first time.
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
- The royal green flag, sewn with hundreds of white salamanders, blanketed the casket.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
- A stout young fellow with considerable of the royal green in his robe stepped forward with a grim smile and drew his long knife.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures in Panama by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
- It comes very near to what some manufacturers call deep royal green, while it is not far removed from an olive.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing
A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings