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Amber is a color. It is a yellow orangish color. And if you have ever seen a grain of weat it is close to that color. The composer of this song is picturing a field of grain waving in the wind!
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThis is a line from the song "America the Beautiful" describing a wheat field. The image will be immediately obvious if you have ever seen a wheat field. Ripe wheat is a golden colour, like amber. When the wind blows across it, it ripples like waves.
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∙ 12y agoIt is the description that Katharine Bates gave the wheat fields of the Midwest on her trip to Pikes Peak. Her poem was converted to music and became the song we all sing today.
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∙ 12y agoAmber, in this case, is an adjective used to describe the grain. Amber is a color - a kind of gold-ish yellow. Fields usually ripen into an amber color, hence "amber waves of grain".
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What does grain mean?
=What the does grain mean?=
Antonym of the go with the flow?
go against the grain. Make waves. Rock the boat.
What does gazing grain mean?
it means the grain is mature or ripe
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"Amber" as a person's name is taken directly from the substance of that name that's often used for making elegant jewelry.
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The mosquito was stuck in the amber. (hardened tree sap)An amber light means caution. (the color yellow)
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Are you referring to "Amber Waves of Grain"? Purple mountain majesty...etc etc? www.visionarylaws.com
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many years ago (20 ??) a made for TV movie, called"Amber Waves" was televised and it was just a GREAT movie, about a family with a huge grain farm and not being able to harvest it, without help from rented harvesters coming in with big machinery. I have searched and googled, but cannot find this wonderful family movie. Can anyone help?? I even tried NetFlix, to no avail
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