Literary notes about mustard (AI summary)
In literary works the color mustard is often used to evoke a warm, rustic vitality that bridges the natural and the abstract. For instance, mustard appears in a straightforward color listing—as in “[1] MUSTARD, WHITE”—emphasizing its role as a defined hue within a palette, while in evocative landscape descriptions, fields of mustard plants transform the scenery into a “perfect sea of yellow” that suffuses the plain with a vibrant, earthy glow as noted in “[2]”. Similarly, the “crude yellow” gleam described in “[3]” hints at a raw, unpolished beauty, using the natural coloration of mustard to enrich the visual texture of a scene.
- MUSTARD, WHITE.
— from The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts by William Salisbury - Ahead a few miles, there was a perfect sea of yellow where the tall mustard covered the plain for a great distance.
— from Frontier Boys on the Coast; Or, In the Pirate's Power by Wyn Roosevelt - In the heart of them gleams the crude yellow of a field of mustard.
— from The Human Slaughter-House: Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come by Wilhelm Lamszus
