the colour of pale flame
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"Her lips were neither pink nor painted. They were somewhere between vermilion and orange, almost like fire, the colour of pale flame."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (trans Nicholas Bethell and David Burg), p186
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (trans Nicholas Bethell and David Burg), p186