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The painting epitomizes the primary colors and geometric rigidity of the de Stijl movement that Mondrian helped define.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 3 May 2024
Three crisp, sharp triangles in flat primary colors are edged in scalloped yellow.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The austerity of the architecture, designed in the Bauhaus style with sharp lines and bursts of primary colors, provides an exciting juxtaposition to the natural grandeur of the property — the immense slopes of the Rockies and the slender towering reach of the Aspen trees.
—Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
Seen from this lofty vantage point, near the tree line atop the Van Sickle Trail, the south shore divides into bookends of vivid primary colors, all greens and blues.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined above
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“Primary color.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primary%20color. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
primary color
noun
: any of a set of colors from which all other colors may be made with the colors for light being red, green, and blue and for pigments or paint being red, yellow, and blue
Medical Definition
primary color
noun
: any of a set of colors (as red, yellow, and blue or red, green, and blue) from which all other colors may be derived
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