canary yellow

Origin of canary yellow

First recorded in 1860–65

Lucy found her aunt in a little room of china-blue and canary-yellow which looked out over the Park.

A Lost Cause |Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
The cultivated tree is distinguished by its darker green leaves, and by its smaller, bright, canary-yellow flowers.

American Forest Trees |Henry H. Gibson
Round his middle was a canary-yellow sash, and dainty little ribbons of the same colour fluttered from the sides of his knees.

Rodney Stone |Arthur Conan Doyle
They dye these stuffs with the red juice extracted from the fruit of a species of fig-tree, or in canary-yellow.

The Human Race |Louis Figuier

It was too much that the mistress of the house should have left her canary-yellow silk sweater on the foot of one bed.

The Innocents |Sinclair Lewis

canary yellow

Sometimes shortened to: canary