band of color
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In his abstract paintings, he often returned to the image of the atomic bomb, through a recurring motif of an orb hovering in a vertical band of color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
What can be conveyed with a circle or a square or a slender band of color?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
We tried geometric patterns and dots, but you can opt for hearts or squiggles or a simple band of color with a ribbon tied on.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2013
A previous FBI expert testified that the strand of hair showed "post-mortem banding," which is a dark band of color near the root sometimes seen on hair from the deceased.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2011
The use of a darker band of color about the base of a whitewashed room has already been noticed in the description of a Tusayan interior.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
