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Color:
Sunburst


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Colors with the same hue:
Cedarwood
Peanut
Nutmeg
Sinopia
Burnt Copper
Henna
Sorrel
Flame
Clay
Ember
Deep Orange
Coral
Nectarine
Middle red
Dark salmon
Light Orange
Delicate Coral
Similar colors:
Sinopia
Mahogany
Flame
Burnt orange
Venetian red
Cinnabar
Medium red
Rust
Lava
Pomegranate
Vermilion
Vivid vermilion
Ember
Lust
Rufous
Poppy
Persimmon
Bamboo
Cadmium red
Fiery Red
Deep Orange
Spanish red
Cherry Red
Imperial red
Metallic brown
Firebrick
Madder Lake
Fiery Orange
Tomato
Jasper
Words evoked by this color:
guitar,  knotty,  woodson,  cello,  bassoon,  woodhouse,  spinet,  harwood,  newel,  pulpit,  carved,  woodwork,  bureau,  sideboard,  floored,  lecturn,  lectern,  carver,  escritoire,  stave,  chest,  madeira,  mahoney,  confessional,  malacca,  mahogany,  castanets,  violinist,  mahon,  roundtable,  varnish,  varnished,  armoire,  luthier,  paneled,  tomahawk,  setter,  ingrained,  fiddler,  burly,  brawny,  craftsmen,  craftsman,  kestrel,  vulpine,  foxy,  plough,  creaking,  peroxidation,  shed
Literary analysis:
In literature, “sunburst” is often employed as a vibrant color to evoke moments of dazzling radiance and sudden transformation. Authors use the term to describe not only natural phenomena—such as the brilliant flash of a new day, as in the reference to Japan’s sunrise [1]—but also as a symbolic adornment on characters and objects, imbuing them with warmth and vitality. In one striking example, a “yellow sunburst” embroidered on a guardian’s breast symbolizes hope and authority [2], while another passage describes a room suddenly filled with a “broad, bright sunburst” that transforms its atmosphere with luminous yellow glory [3]. Even when used in less literal contexts, as when a character’s beard is depicted with a “dark sunburst,” the color conjures a rich interplay of light and shadow, capturing both brilliance and mystery [4].
  1. And it is not sunset, after all; it is sunrise—the sunburst of Japan!
    — from Japonette by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
  2. On our monthly council meeting!” The Guardian smiled, as smiled her symbol, the yellow sunburst embroidered upon her breast.
    — from Camp Fire Girls in War and Peace by Isabel Hornibrook
  3. As she closed and locked the writing-case the hour struck; a broad, bright sunburst flashed in and filled the room with yellow glory.
    — from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
  4. And whistled so through his shaving that his mouth was rayed with a dark sunburst of beard where the razor had not found surface.
    — from The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

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