Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: M Through R
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With a little help from the Phrontistery and a colors study series by CLmember Miaki, we've put together a guide to lesser-known color vocabulary.
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red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour |
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reddish purple |
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brownish crimson |
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light bluish purple |
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rich blue or reddish-blue colour |
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black; very dark |
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having a honey-like colour |
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canary-yellow |
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colour of reddish lead |
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vermilion; red lead |
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crimson |
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dark-coloured horse; blackish colour |
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bright orange-red |
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buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
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of a blackish colour |
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black |
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snowy; white |
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yellowish or yellow-brown colour |
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yellowish white |
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olive-coloured |
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heraldic colour gold or yellow |
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peacock-blue |
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a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers |
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dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
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bright scarlet-red colour |
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like pitch; inflammable; reddish black |
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leaden; lead-coloured |
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poppy red |
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purple |
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leek-green |
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leek-green colour |
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pale yellow |
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blood-root; dark red colour |
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brownish-purple; purplish-pink |
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bright or purplish red |
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heraldic colour purple |
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purple |
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reddish; ruddy |
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visual purple |
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rusty-coloured |
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ruby red; rusty |
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reddish or brownish-red |
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reddish brown |
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