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Color:
Salem


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Colors with the same hue:
Evergreen
Holly
Medium green
Feldgrau
Amazon
GO green
Jade
Island Green
Soft Green
Cambridge blue
Similar colors:
Medium green
Sea green
Juniper
Clover
Amazon
Bottle Green
Spanish green
Spinach
Tropical rain forest
Forest green 
Jade
Viridian
Russian green
Parsley
Mint
May green
Oxley
GO green
Evergreen
Serene Green
Mountain Meadow
Basil
Chromium
Deep Green
Royal green
Bilious Green
Lincoln green
Asparagus
Iridescent Green
Fern
Words evoked by this color:
hula,  darted,  dartmouth,  macleod,  buchanan,  robertson,  mckenzie,  stuart,  honduran,  phlegmatic,  mitigated,  gin,  juniper,  largo,  dovetail,  polly,  hunter,  myrtle,  brookfield,  dense,  seclude,  chippewa,  spruce,  evergreen,  coniferous,  acadia,  conifer,  ranger,  fraser,  hagen,  grafton,  gresham,  harriman,  lansdowne,  nemophilist,  sylvan,  entangle,  dingle,  primeval,  druid,  wilderness,  sherwood,  forester,  underwood,  forrester,  forster,  pinchot,  tall,  grenville,  rata
Literary analysis:
None of the examples actually employ “Salem” to describe a hue. Rather than appearing as a color—like “scarlet” or “emerald”—the word is consistently used as a proper noun naming a town, an institution, or a historical figure. Although “Salem” carries heavy cultural and historical connotations that might suggest shadowy or mysterious overtones in the reader’s mind, the texts provided do not explicitly invoke it as a chromatic descriptor [1][2]. This omission highlights that, while the name “Salem” resonates with rich symbolic meaning in literary settings, authors have so far preferred to rely on conventional color terms when directly referring to color.
  1. The Court at Salem, before referred to, passed on one Catharine Derby a very heavy sentence for stealing from Captain Hathorne's shop.
    — from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
  2. Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise!
    — from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope


Colors associated with the word:
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White
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Brown 
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Midnight blue
Burgundy
Olive
Charcoal
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Teal
Rust
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Plum 
Words with similar colors:
trick,  boo,  halloween,  hallow,  ween,  eek,  hallo,  witch,  tricked,  jack,  witchcraft,  samhain,  baltimore,  voodoo,  superstitious,  biretta,  anarchism,  toussaint,  salamander,  resist
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