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Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: M Through R

Posted By evad On 2 April, 2009 In Guides, Inspiration, News | 15 Comments

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.

Madder

red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour

Magenta

reddish purple

Maroon

brownish crimson

Mauve

light bluish purple

Mazarine

rich blue or reddish-blue colour

Melanic

black; very dark

Melichrous

having a honey-like colour

Meline

canary-yellow

Miniaceous

colour of reddish lead

Minium

vermilion; red lead

Modena

crimson

Morel

dark-coloured horse; blackish colour

Nacarat

bright orange-red

Nankeen

buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton

Nigricant

of a blackish colour

Nigrine

black

Niveous

snowy; white

Ochre

yellowish or yellow-brown colour

Ochroleucous

yellowish white

Olivaceous

olive-coloured

Or

heraldic colour gold or yellow

Pavonated

peacock-blue

Periwinkle

a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers

Perse

dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour

Phoeniceous

bright scarlet-red colour

Piceous

like pitch; inflammable; reddish black

Plumbeous

leaden; lead-coloured

Ponceau

poppy red

Porphyrous

purple

Porraceous

leek-green

Prasinous

leek-green colour

Primrose

pale yellow

Puccoon

blood-root; dark red colour

Puce

brownish-purple; purplish-pink

Puniceous

bright or purplish red

Purpure

heraldic colour purple

Purpureal

purple

Pyrrhous

reddish; ruddy

Rhodopsin

visual purple

Rubiginous

rusty-coloured

Rubious

ruby red; rusty

Rufous

reddish or brownish-red

Russet

reddish brown

See the rest of the alphabet: A - C, D - L, M - R, S - Z.


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