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tertiary color
noun
- a color, as brown, produced by mixing two secondary colors.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tertiary color1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences
Hence, a tertiary color is made of equal parts of two secondaries.
From Project Gutenberg
On the side-wall, russet possesses orange, and it also possesses violet; it is the tertiary color made of these two secondaries.
From Project Gutenberg
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