cantaloupe
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈkæntəˌloʊp/
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color melón
- "Mama's head, small as a cantaloupe on the gray pillow, with the skin of a cantaloupe, too, turned toward Hilda.
- cantaloupe-colored
And I think it was like a sort of cantaloupe colored silk, either like a gunny sacks or a Laura Ashley, you know, dress.
- And I think it was like a sort of cantaloupe colored silk, either like a gunny sacks or a Laura Ashley, you know, dress.
Examples
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So if anybody knows of a banquet hall that would compliment my colors of cantaloupe and cream...
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Her face was cantaloupe-round, crisscrossed with wrinkles, but her hair was black.
Fiction book (1996) -
Like a cantaloupe in the sun.
Fiction book (1996) -
See the sunset, more orange than ripe cantaloupe.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Mama's head, small as a cantaloupe on the gray pillow, with the skin of a cantaloupe, too, turned toward Hilda.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I think it was like a sort of cantaloupe colored silk, either like a gunny sacks or a Laura Ashley, you know, dress.
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When you answered with the announcement that you, too, would be in England in April (in pursuit, you said, of Browning's chaffinch), though only for a week, I went out and bought a suitcase's worth of wonderful new clothes, all in grape, kelp, and cantaloupe.
Fiction book (1991) -
Wiggling squares of red Jell-O in a pretty glass dish, or a smile of orange cantaloupe, or chocolate pudding, or vanilla, or even butterscotch, all lined up next to each other on the ice, and you could scoop them right off of there and put them on your tray.
Fiction book (2000) -
The living room was painted in a soft cantaloupe shade, giving it a warm and inviting feel.
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For her wedding, she chose decorations in shades of cantaloupe and cream to create a romantic atmosphere.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit
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1.7
A light pink color with a little yellow like ripe fruit
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2.3
A reddish orange color like the skin of a ripe fruit
Compounds
How Orange
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cantaloupe as a color is named after the melon’s soft orange flesh, so calling a fabric or paint 'cantaloupe' means it has that warm, pale orange shade.