Sentence examples for ground colour from inspiring English sources

Underglaze blue was sometimes used as a monochrome ground colour.

The ground colour is typically yellowish above and white below.

The rose colour, discussed below, was used both as a monochrome and as a ground colour.

Bark cloth robes are printed or painted in black on a rust-red ground colour.

I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

Both silk and wool are used, but the woollen tallith is preferable, with white as its ground colour.

Furthermore, among the 19 species in the Paradoxornis genus there is apparently a pronounced variation in egg colouration with ground colours being described as white, green-white, grey, yellow, brown, reddish, pale blue and blue.

In the air, Second World War fighters were often painted in ground colours above and sky colours below, attempting two different camouflage schemes for observers above and below.

Meantime the agitation of the Spaniard had a little loosened the bunting from around him, so that one broad fold swept curtain-like over the chair-arm to the floor, revealing, amid a profusion of armorial bars and ground-colour — black, blue and yellow — a closed castle in a blood-red field diagonal with a lion rampant in a white.

In the case of bare ground the surface albedo calculation requires only the soil colour, which varies with the colour class (soil colour index).

If the crowd, basking in the late summer heat, had responded as well, then it was not particularly evident, the full palette of background colours making this ground strangely more difficult than most for fielders to sight the ball: a bad "seeing" ground, as they call it.