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primary color

noun

Art.��a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors.
Optics.��any of a set of monochromatic colors, as red, green, and blue, that are added to match or specify the chromaticity of a stimulus or sample.

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First recorded in 1605–15

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Adding to the mystique is a painterly palette of primary colors.

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Shot in saturated primary colors, the visual of the song finds her seducing both the camera and her dancing partner in no uncertain terms.

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And we learn that there are three primary colors — red, yellow and blue — from which all other colors can be mixed.

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But it’s not just the overabundance of a divisive primary color that makes the image so unnerving.

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Three crisp, sharp triangles in flat primary colors are edged in scalloped yellow.

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