English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

Let's say you are dealing with a non-traditional color to describe a dress, something like canary. When describing the dress, you always describe it as a canary-colored dress. Now there is another dress whose color is similar to canary but does not quite fit the same description. You want to call it a canary-like dress (the same way you might say cream-like), but you run into trouble because "canary-like" makes it sound like you are referencing the bird and not the color.

How would you work around this problem?

I am also wondering whether "semi-" could work but am not sure how to write it properly.

"Semi-canary-colored" also seems a bit awkward.