Peeters (2020) unpacks the keyword gezellig that ‘typifies speakers of Netherlands Dutch’ more than speakers of Belgian Dutch. In this paper, we explore another culturally salient word in Netherlands Dutch—oranje ‘orange’. Oranje is associated with the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is emblematic for the Netherlands, especially in asserting national identity as opposed to ‘others’. The national football team is called Oranje and in international games, the sports teams and supporters are adorned in orange colours. This term is recognized at all societal levels as the marker of identity. During celebrations of the King’s birthday, orange banners and even food items are decorated in orange, e.g. oranje tompouce. The study is based on data from several sources: the Spoken Dutch corpus, newspapers and websites, Dutch literature and the Canon of the Netherlands, and native speakers’ responses to a questionnaire and interviews probing for the cultural semantics of the term. We propose an explication of the colour term oranje and an explication of its cultural keyword status as well as cultural scripts in Minimal English and Minimal Dutch to account for the knowledge and use of the hyperlexeme oranje ‘orange’.