cadmium yellow pale
- noun
- Specialized
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amarillo cadmio pálido
- In her landscape painting, the artist used cadmium yellow pale to depict the light of the setting sun.
- cadmium yellow pale and yellow ochre
- titanium white and cadmium yellow pale
- cadmium yellow pale and Winsor blue
Examples
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A tube of cadmium yellow pale was among the essential colors in her watercolor palette.
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She always preferred using cadmium yellow pale for sunlit areas because of its soft glow.
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The artist mixed cadmium yellow pale with white to achieve a delicate, luminous effect in the painting.
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The artist chose cadmium yellow pale for the sky.
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I love the softness of cadmium yellow pale in her paintings.
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The painter chose cadmium yellow pale for the background to give the artwork a warm glow.
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To achieve a soft, luminous effect, she blended cadmium yellow pale with other pigments on her palette.
Synonyms
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A light yellow colour that looks soft and not bright
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Morphology
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'cadmium' (the element) + 'yellow' (color) denotes a specific pigment, and 'pale' simply modifies it to indicate a lighter/less intense shade. This standard adjective + noun compound is cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows the three constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cadmium yellow pale gets its name from the metal cadmium, which artists used to make a very bright yellow paint, and the word pale shows it is a lighter, softer version of that yellow. So when painters say cadmium yellow pale, they mean the light, delicate 'shade' of cadmium yellow used for sunlit or gentle areas.