blue-orange

Updated: May 14, 2025

I tell ye it's the divil's own colour, that blue-orange an' blue is the divil's own colours, shure enough, fur brimstone's yaller; an' its blue whin it's burnin', that I hed from his riv'rince himself bless him!" Dinner with the Witch Biddy meanwhile had waddled around the room slapping the boards with her broad bare feet as she prepared their dinner.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Thus, if the eyes are exposed for some time to an impression of the colour red, and then directed to a neutral surface, not too brightly illuminated, one sees it covered with a glimmering green. In this way there is a reciprocal correspondence between the colour-pairs Red-Green, Yellow-Violet, Blue-Orange.

Ernst Lehrs - Man or Matter