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Color:
Sunglow


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Colors with the same hue:
Muddy Brown
Flint
Golden poppy
Warm Gray
Sunflower
Oak
Saffron
Lanzones
Sunny Gold
Oat
Cardamom
Wheat
Chamomile
Peach
Veil
Similar colors:
Saffron
Ripe mango
Jonquil
Sunflower
Honey
Golden poppy
Mango
Amber
Spanish yellow
Bold Yellow
Striking Gold
Xanthous
Mustard
Citrine
Urobilin
Butterscotch
Buttercup
Sunny Gold
Naples yellow
Golden yellow
Bright yellow 
Bright Orange
Goldenrod
Soft Orange
Maize
Vivid yellow
Marigold
Sulfur
Muddy Yellow
Metallic gold
Words evoked by this color:
putti,  kashmiri,  paella,  saffron,  asana,  namaste,  vedic,  lndian,  rasa,  bhakti,  bhagavad,  swami,  ganesh,  hinduism,  maratha,  hanuman,  vivekananda,  ramakrishna,  swamiji,  ayodhya,  sangh,  anand,  ramayana,  prasad,  granth,  veda,  vidya,  upanisad,  brahmin,  buddhist,  acharya,  buddhism,  dharma,  guru,  upanishad,  saki,  sais,  sadhu,  vedanta,  rishi,  saddhu,  ashram,  monk,  pilgrimage,  fakir,  yogi,  savour,  taste,  hindu,  devi
Literary analysis:
In literature, the color "sunglow" is frequently employed to evoke a vivid, almost otherworldly ambiance. In [1], it forms the backdrop for mysterious, sinuous movement, imbuing the scene with a surreal quality as an "arm crept like a snake" from its radiant confines. Similarly, [2] uses the intense, almost oppressive heat of sunglow to animate the landscape, lending an almost musical pulse to nature with the "bog-myrtle" and its resonant tang. In [3], the softer, gentler quality of the sunglow becomes a metaphor for emotional thawing, where the brightness of Æolic lands melts away the harshness symbolized by "futile Snows about thy heart." Lastly, [4] captures the impermanence of a moment, as the fading sunglow outside mirrors the transient nature of light and hope.
  1. Out of the sunglow the arm crept like a snake, then it lay still in the shadow betwixt the two who slumbered unheeding.
    — from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp
  2. Now and again there was the sharp twang in it of the bog-myrtle, sweltering in the sunglow.
    — from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp
  3. Soon the kinder sunglow Of Æolic lands Melted all the futile Snows about thy heart.
    — from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho
  4. T he sunglow outside faded instantly.
    — from Novice by James H. Schmitz

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