Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: M Through R
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 |
kilizman
These colors are all so cool!
_stefan
:D
Faerenach
IvoryBox
mckinley
iona
I love words, and I love colors. Thanks, Miaka, for all the time you put into this!
iona
iona
retsof
Here's one in Belgium, without looking too hard ... their site is in French
http://www.cup.be/
map and pictures of the same quarry near Lessines
http://www.cmpb.net/en/lessines.php
retsof
looks a bit faded...
retsof
retsof
I'll get "Solferino" next time.
Note: my 1930 copy of the Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul states that Marone or Marrone is Italian for "Spanish Chestnut". The color has been in use since the 1500s. "Maroon" didn't come around until 1789.
iona
iona
MarkCamano
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