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Definition of Shades of
1. Noun. Something that reminds you of someone or something. "Aren't there shades of 1948 here?"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shades Of
Literary usage of Shades of
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The color is of great body, and includes shades of red, magenta and violet.
The dye appears in the market as a thick liquid called "archil,9 a paste called ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... with two tints and two shades of each. Color has three characteristics : hue,
purity or saturation, and luminosity or brightness. Hue is color per se, ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1853)
"And Achilles asks how he has dared to descend to Hades where the shades of men
dwell. Yet upon a careful consideration of the beginning and conclusion of ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"B They dye silk and tannin- mordanted cotton shades of pink. The phtha- leins,
represented by the cosines and erythro- sines and rhodamines, including the ..."
5. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1910)
"We find in rugs of one class two shades of yellow, two shades of blue and cream
color; in another two shades of blue, cream color and apricot red; ..."
6. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... in the latter shades of night, Before th" approaches of returning light, 30
She saw, or thought she saw, before her bed, A glorious train, ..."
7. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"Where shades of orange are wanted, without their utmost vivacity, upon wool and
woollen cloths, they may be obtained by combining the colouring matter or ..."
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