The colour of flame; a bright reddish yellow or orange.
1608. B. Jonson, Masque of Beauty. Splendor, in a robe of flame colour, naked breasted: her bright hair loose flowing.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 265 3 Jan., ¶ 7. When Melesinda wraps her Head in Flame Colour, her Heart is set upon Execution.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 143. Perhaps we are not the less likely to awaken true convictions of sin, that we strive to speak of it with the voice of discriminative justice, instead of the monotonous thunders of vengeance; and to draw its image in the natural tints provided by the conscience, rather than in the preternatural flame-color mingled in the crucibles of hell.
b. attrib. or adj. = next.
1763. Del Pino, Sp. Dict., Caballo de color morado, a flame colour horse.
