saffron

In Yasser's saffron shop, the precious spice arrives by air from Mashhad, in northeastern Iran, thanks to the resumption of air links after a brief interruption.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

It contrasted the clip with one of a young female athlete in a saffron tunic—a color associated with Hinduism—receiving an award from the country’s president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Footage posted online shows saffron robes and belongings scattered by the roadside, and a wrecked vehicle.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

We hovered over saffron tea surrounded by other young Southern Californians, and we looked like friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

When the girls returned from the fields to the big house, everyone at the house could hear their laughter, because saffron has an aroma that makes people happy.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Costumes are colored tights in purples, greens, saffrons, with unobtrusive matching jackets.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

On that evening, I remember, the reds and saffrons in the sky were of an astonishing richness.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

How quickly the subtle browns and saffrons and vermilions fade!

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

The effect was exquisite, the window a veritable masterpiece, glowing, flaming, and burning with a hundred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris

Higher the waves rolled—phosphorescent green and iridescent violet, weird copperous yellows and metallic saffrons and a shimmer of glittering ash of rose—then wavered, split and formed into gigantic, sparkling, marching curtains of splendor.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt