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Color:
Tin


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Root beer
Blood red
Cayenne
Sangria
Cranberry
Signal Red
Venetian red
Fiery Red
Firebrick
Bole
Liver
Lava
Cadmium red
Molten Lava
Vivid red
Lust
Rum
Dull Red
Muddy Red
Vermilion
Cedar
Fire opal
Bittersweet
Faint Blush
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Hemp
Cinereous
Burnished brown
Musk
Wenge
Carbon
Fig
Liver
Rosy
Tuscany
Clove
Tobacco
Beaver
Umber
Faded Rose
Roast coffee
Old rose
Bole
Cappuccino
Pastel pink
Eclipse
Old burgundy
Quincy
Mocha
Mellow Gold
Redwood
Pale chestnut
Ash Brown
Currant
Pale silver
Words evoked by this color:
nat,  scarcity,  steinbeck,  wasteland,  churchill,  frigate,  dreadnought,  warship,  louche,  lingering,  blurred,  smuggle,  puffing,  steely,  high-rise,  material,  erecting,  structural,  metropolis,  welding,  welded,  cathodic,  countersink,  lathe,  machinist,  tensile,  galvanize,  sheffield,  alloy,  machining,  equipping,  metallurgy,  titanic,  materials,  towering,  tempered,  sheathed,  stiffened,  stiffer,  refinery,  rigid,  annealed,  clenched,  tightened,  tighten,  tightening,  alloying,  phalanx,  armour,  steele
Literary analysis:
In literature the adjective “tin” is not merely a reference to a metal but a subtle cue to a muted, metallic hue that evokes cool, hard resilience or sometimes a gentle melancholy. Authors frequently use tin-colored objects—a tin roof in a weathered house, for example, as in [1], [2], and [3]—to paint a scene of industrial austerity or the faded beauty of a bygone era. Even characters and figures, such as the Tin Soldier in [4] or the “little tin statue” in [5], are imbued with an otherworldly quality through their association with the gleam of tin, suggesting both steadfastness and fragility. In one striking instance, the color symbolism deepens in [6] where tin’s understated luster is linked to the soft splendor of Venus, reflecting how a seemingly plain hue can carry layers of emotional and aesthetic meaning.
  1. Suddenly, from a small tin-roofed house that nestled under the tall lighthouse, a man came running at top speed.
    — from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner
  2. If tin can be got in Nashville have a tin roof put on it.
    — from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn
  3. And ever the rain beat down, rattling, incessant, upon the tin roof above her head.
    — from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
  4. "I'm not wobbly," the Tin Soldier assured him, 236 "but I'm certain that one of my legs is shorter than the other.
    — from The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
  5. With this command, Captain Jinks faced about to the road, and stiffened all over till he looked like a little tin statue.
    — from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels
  6. The second, of tin, was that of Venus, symbolizing her soft splendor and easy flexibility.
    — from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike


Colors associated with the word:
Silver 
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Pewter
Charcoal
Gunmetal
Platinum
Smoke
Lead
Zinc
Nickel
Graphite
Iron
Chrome
Mercury
Tungsten
Words with similar colors:
sixpence,  stria,  quaver,  aluminium,  interstice,  thimble,  encapsulated,  stainless,  echoing,  stirling,  amalgamated,  elliptic,  50-60,  render,  threshold,  minute,  trace,  second,  echo,  concurrent
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