Definition of "sulphur-yellow" [sulphur-yellow]

• The yellow color of sulphur; a pale or light yellow. See sulphur, a. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When we finally centred the bird in the telescope you could see that his throat was a glittering emerald, his crown sulphur-yellow."
• "The lucidity, the clarity of the light that afternoon was sufficient to itself; perfect transparency must be impenetrable, these vertical bars of a brass-coloured distillation of light coming down from the sulphur-yellow interstices in a sky hunkered with grey clouds that bulge with more rain."
• "Rundown houses gave way to wooded hollows haunted by trickles of sulphur-yellow water."