swart

swart (adjective indefinite masculine nominative)
swarte (adjective feminine indefinite nominative)
swart (adjective indefinite neuter nominative)
swarte (adjective indefinite nominative plural)
swarte (adjective definite masculine nominative)
swarte (adjective definite feminine nominative)
swarten (accusative adjective indefinite masculine)
swarte (accusative adjective feminine indefinite)
swart (accusative adjective indefinite neuter)
swarte (accusative adjective indefinite plural)
swarte (accusative adjective definite masculine)
swarts (adjective genitive indefinite masculine)
swarter (adjective feminine genitive indefinite)
swarts (adjective genitive indefinite neuter)
swarter (adjective genitive indefinite plural)
swarts (adjective definite genitive masculine)
swarten (adjective definite genitive masculine)
swarts (adjective definite feminine genitive)
swarten (adjective definite feminine genitive)
swarten (adjective dative masculine)
swarter (adjective dative feminine)
swarten (adjective dative neuter)
swarten (adjective dative plural)

Dutch: zwart

Afrikaans: swart

Limburgish: zwart

West Flemish: zwort

From Old Dutch swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


swart

head

swart (plural and weak singular swarte, comparative swarter)

swarte (plural)
swarte (singular weak)
swarter (comparative)

English: swart, swarth

Scots: swart

From Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz; compare Middle Dutch swart, Middle Low German swart, Middle High German swarz.

Black-skinned, swarthy; having dark skin.

Black; swart.
(rare) Bruised, heavily wounded.


swart

osx-decl-adj

swart

swart (masculine nominative singular strong)
swarte (masculine nominative plural strong)
swarta (masculine nominative plural strong)
swart (feminine nominative singular strong)
swarta (feminine nominative plural strong)
swart (neuter nominative singular strong)
swart (neuter nominative plural strong)
swarta (neuter nominative plural strong)
swartan (accusative masculine singular strong)
swarten (accusative masculine singular strong)
swarta (accusative masculine plural strong)
swarte (accusative masculine plural strong)
swarta (accusative feminine singular strong)
swarta (accusative feminine plural strong)
swart (accusative neuter singular strong)
swart (accusative neuter plural strong)
swarta (accusative neuter plural strong)
swartes (genitive masculine singular strong)
swartas (genitive masculine singular strong)
swartaro (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartoro (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartero (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartara (feminine genitive singular strong)
swartaro (feminine genitive singular strong)
swartaro (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartoro (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartero (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartes (genitive neuter singular strong)
swartas (genitive neuter singular strong)
swartaro (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartoro (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartero (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartumu (dative masculine singular strong)
swartum (dative masculine singular strong)
swartun (dative masculine singular strong)
swarton (dative masculine singular strong)
swarten (dative masculine singular strong)
swartan (dative masculine singular strong)
swartun (dative masculine plural strong)
swarton (dative masculine plural strong)
swartum (dative masculine plural strong)
swartaro (dative feminine singular strong)
swartaru (dative feminine singular strong)
swartara (dative feminine singular strong)
swartun (dative feminine plural strong)
swarton (dative feminine plural strong)
swartumu (dative neuter singular strong)
swartum (dative neuter singular strong)
swartun (dative neuter singular strong)
swarton (dative neuter singular strong)
swarten (dative neuter singular strong)
swartan (dative neuter singular strong)
swartun (dative neuter plural strong)
swarton (dative neuter plural strong)
swartum (dative neuter plural strong)
swarto (masculine nominative singular weak)
swarta (masculine nominative singular weak)
swarton (masculine nominative plural weak)
swartun (masculine nominative plural weak)
swarta (feminine nominative singular weak)
swarte (feminine nominative singular weak)
swarton (feminine nominative plural weak)
swartun (feminine nominative plural weak)
swartan (feminine nominative plural weak)
swarta (neuter nominative singular weak)
swarte (neuter nominative singular weak)
swarton (neuter nominative plural weak)
swartun (neuter nominative plural weak)
swarton (accusative masculine singular weak)
swartan (accusative masculine singular weak)
swarton (accusative masculine plural weak)
swartun (accusative masculine plural weak)
swartun (accusative feminine singular weak)
swarton (accusative feminine singular weak)
swartan (accusative feminine singular weak)
swarton (accusative feminine plural weak)
swartun (accusative feminine plural weak)
swartan (accusative feminine plural weak)
swarta (accusative neuter singular weak)
swarte (accusative neuter singular weak)
swarton (accusative neuter plural weak)
swartun (accusative neuter plural weak)
swarten (genitive masculine singular weak)
swartan (genitive masculine singular weak)
swartono (genitive masculine plural weak)
swarteno (genitive masculine plural weak)
swartun (feminine genitive singular weak)
swartan (feminine genitive singular weak)
swarten (feminine genitive singular weak)
swartono (feminine genitive plural weak)
swarten (genitive neuter singular weak)
swartan (genitive neuter singular weak)
swartono (genitive neuter plural weak)
swarteno (genitive neuter plural weak)
swarton (dative masculine singular weak)
swarten (dative masculine singular weak)
swartan (dative masculine singular weak)
swarton (dative masculine plural weak)
swartun (dative masculine plural weak)
swartun (dative feminine singular weak)
swartan (dative feminine singular weak)
swarton (dative feminine plural weak)
swartun (dative feminine plural weak)
swarton (dative neuter singular weak)
swarten (dative neuter singular weak)
swartan (dative neuter singular weak)
swarton (dative neuter plural weak)
swartun (dative neuter plural weak)

Middle Low German: swart

Low German:

German Low German: swart, schwart

Hamburgisch: swatt

Westphalian:

Münsterländisch: swatt

Paderbornisch: schwart

Lippisch: schwart

Ravensbergisch: swārt, swat

Sauerländisch: schwart, schwatt, schwuat, schwoart, schwuart, schwoert

Westmünsterländisch: schwatt, schwott, schwart

→ German: schwatt

Plautdietsch: schwoat

→ Danish: sværte (“black dye”)

From Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


swart

swart (adverbial positive predicative)
swarter (adverbial comparative predicative)
it swartst (adverbial predicative superlative)
it swartste (adverbial predicative superlative)
swarte (common-gender indefinite positive singular)
swartere (common-gender comparative indefinite singular)
swartste (common-gender indefinite singular superlative)
swart (indefinite neuter positive singular)
swarter (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
swartste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
swarte (indefinite plural positive)
swartere (comparative indefinite plural)
swartste (indefinite plural superlative)
swarte (definite positive)
swartere (comparative definite)
swartste (definite superlative)
swarts (partitive positive)
swarters (comparative partitive)

From Old Frisian swart, swert, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


glower

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Middle Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. See more at glare.

cog

She sure has an awful glower on her face.

[H]e [Rab, a dog] growled and gave now and then a sharp impatient yelp; he would have liked to have done something to that man. But James had him firm, and gave him a glower from time to time, and an intimation of a possible kick;—all the better for James, it kept his eye and his mind off Ailie.

1862, John Brown, “Rab and His Friends”, in Spare Hours, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 33:

"I thought we could go a bit farther to the back pasture. You can get a better view." / "Of the extensive Bannister estate?" she said with a wry tone. / "Of the ranch," he said, a glower showing her that he didn't fully appreciate her comment.

2015, Carolyne Aarsen, chapter 6, in The Cowboy’s Homecoming (Love Inspired Books), New York, N.Y.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 89:

"Enough," Nathaniel repeated as he kept a tight hold on their suspenders. "What's been said was said. What's been done has been done. It's over. Let is go." / The glowers the boys gave him warned Nathaniel that he was wasting his breath.

2016, Jo Ann Brown, chapter 1, in His Amish Sweetheart (Love Inspired Books; Amish Hearts; 3), New York, N.Y.: Harlequin, →ISBN:


glower

From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow + -er.

Table 45 presents computed relative and absolute values for the spectral radiant emittance of a Nernst glower at T = 1965 and 2000°K (the corresponding emissivities are 0.427 and 0.438).

1968, Mikaél’ A[bramovič] Bramson, “Special Infrared Sources”, in Richard B. Rodman, transl., edited by William L. Wolfe, Infrared Radiation: A Handbook for Applications: With a Collection of Reference Tables (Optical Physics and Engineering), New York, N.Y.: Plenum Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, 2013, →DOI, →ISBN, § 3 (Infrared Incandescent Lamps), page 274:


solar

From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

and proud beside, as solar people are

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

a solar furnace


solar

He’s a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds.

December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine:


kelly green

American coinage, in reference to the Irish surname Kelly and the association of Ireland with the color green.

kelly green:

They were on their way to a clambake, a Friday night with friends at the marina. Wearing a kelly green tennis dress with white espadrilles, she was carrying a sheet cake resembling a flag, blueberries and strawberries as the stars and stripes arranged across a layer of whipped cream.

2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:


forest green

forest green:

A dark green colour, like that of forest foliage.


forest green

Of a dark green colour, like that of forest foliage.


Alice blue

From the name of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt), who favoured the colour and made it fashionable in the US.


olive drab

en-noun

olive drab (countable and uncountable, plural olive drabs)

BS 381C olive drab:

FS 595 olive drab:

RAL 6022 olive drab:

X11 olive drab:

A greyish green colour, like that of a ripe green olive; almost invariably with a matte finish.

Cloth of an olive drab colour, used often for military uniforms.


olive drab

Of a greyish green colour, like that of a ripe green olive.


hunter green

hunter green (usually uncountable, plural hunter greens)

hunter green:

It is not, thank God, hunter green, the green that for a decade now has permeated every product line from polo shirts to potato peeler handles

2000, Rob Levandoski, Serendipity green, page 115:


slate blue

slate blue (countable and uncountable, plural slate blues)

slate blue:

liuskeenharmaa

dark bluish-grey colour — see also slate, slate gray, blue-gray


peacock blue

peacock blue (countable and uncountable, plural peacock blues)

peacock blue:

A brilliant, dark blue-green colour, like the plumage of a peacock.


peacock blue

Jo read the following words, inscribed in peacock blue ink, in a near cursive hand.

1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:


tinder

tinder (countable and uncountable, plural tinders)

From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

cog

Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 311, line 157:

Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.


tinder

English: tinder

Scots: tunder, tundir

From Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą.


antique brass

A brownish yellow colour, like that of brass, but darker.


antique brass

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of brass, but darker.


battleship grey

en-noun

battleship grey (countable and uncountable, plural battleship greys)

battleship grey:

A medium grey colour tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.


battleship grey

Of a medium grey colour tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.


apagar

es-verb

apagar (first-person singular present apago, first-person singular preterite apagué, past participle apagado)

apago (first-person present singular)
apagué (first-person preterite singular)
apagado (participle past)
apagar (infinitive)
apagando (gerund)
apagado (masculine participle past singular)
apagada (feminine participle past singular)
apagados (masculine participle past plural)
apagadas (feminine participle past plural)
apago (first-person indicative present singular)
apagas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
apagás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
apaga (indicative present singular third-person)
apagamos (first-person indicative plural present)
apagáis (indicative plural present second-person)
apagan (indicative plural present third-person)
apagaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
apagabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
apagaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
apagábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
apagabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
apagaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
apagué (first-person indicative preterite singular)
apagaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
apagó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
apagamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
apagasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
apagaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
apagaré (first-person future indicative singular)
apagarás (future indicative second-person singular)
apagará (future indicative singular third-person)
apagaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
apagaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
apagarán (future indicative plural third-person)
apagaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
apagarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
apagaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
apagaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
apagaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
apagarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
apague (first-person present singular subjunctive)
apagues (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
apagués (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
apague (present singular subjunctive third-person)
apaguemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
apaguéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
apaguen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
apagara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
apagaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
apagara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
apagáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
apagarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
apagaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
apagase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
apagases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
apagase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
apagásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
apagaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
apagasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
apagare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
apagares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
apagare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
apagáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
apagareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
apagaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
apaga (imperative informal second-person singular)
apagá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
apague (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apague (imperative singular third-person)
apaguemos (first-person imperative plural)
apagad (imperative plural second-person)
apaguen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apaguen (imperative plural third-person)
apagues (imperative negative second-person singular)
apague (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apague (imperative negative singular third-person)
apaguemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
apaguéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
apaguen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apaguen (imperative negative plural third-person)
apagarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
apagarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
apagarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apagarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apagarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
apagaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
apagarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apagarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apagarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
apagarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
apagarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apagarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apagarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apagarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
apagaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
apagarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apagarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apagarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apagándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
apagándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
apagándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apagándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apagándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
apagándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
apagándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apagándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apagándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
apagándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
apagándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apagándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apagándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apagándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
apagándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
apagándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apagándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apagándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apágame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apágate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apágale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apáganos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
apágales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apágame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apágate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apágalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apágala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apáganos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
apágalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apágalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apagame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apagate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apagale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apaganos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
apagales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apagame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apagate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apagalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apagala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
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apagalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apagalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apágueme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
apáguele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
apágueles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apágueme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
apáguelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
apáguelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apáguelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apaguémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
apaguémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apaguémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
apaguémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
apaguémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apaguémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
apaguémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apaguémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apaguémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
apaguémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
apaguémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apaguémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apagadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apagadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apagadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apagaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
apagadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apagadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apagadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apagadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apagadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apagaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
apagadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apagadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apáguenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apáguenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apáguenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apáguenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apáguense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *appācāre, from Latin ad- + pācāre. Compare to English apay.

(transitive) to extinguish (a flame, fire), to douse

(transitive) to shut off, to turn off, to switch off, to shut down, to power off

(transitive, computing) to shut off, to turn off, to switch off, to shut down, to power off

(transitive) to put out, to stub out (e.g., cigarette)

(transitive) to blow out (e.g., a candle), to snuff or snuff out (e.g., a torch)


apple-green

en-noun

apple-green (countable and uncountable, plural apple-greens)

apple-green:

bright apple-green:

A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.


bronze yellow

bronze yellow:

A yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.


bronze yellow

en-adj

bronze yellow (comparative more bronze yellow, superlative most bronze yellow)

more bronze yellow (comparative)
most bronze yellow (superlative)

Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.


burlywood

burlywood:

A brown sandy colour, of RGB hexadecimal value #DEB887.


carroty

carroty (comparative more carroty, superlative most carroty)

more carroty (comparative)
most carroty (superlative)

The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes […]

1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.

1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:

Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape etc.

marchewkowy

resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.


blue violet

en-noun

blue violet (countable and uncountable, plural blue violets)

blue violet:


firepole

A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.


palo

palo (nominative singular)
palot (nominative plural)
palon (genitive singular)
palloin (genitive plural)
paloloin (genitive plural)
palloa (partitive singular)
paloja (partitive plural)
paloloja (partitive plural)
palloo (illative singular)
palloi (illative plural)
paloloihe (illative plural)
palos (inessive singular)
palois (inessive plural)
palolois (inessive plural)
palost (elative singular)
paloist (elative plural)
paloloist (elative plural)
palolle (allative singular)
paloille (allative plural)
paloloille (allative plural)
palol (adessive singular)
paloil (adessive plural)
paloloil (adessive plural)
palolt (ablative singular)
paloilt (ablative plural)
paloloilt (ablative plural)
paloks (singular translative)
paloiks (plural translative)
paloloiks (plural translative)
palonna (essive singular)
palloon (essive singular)
paloinna (essive plural)
paloloinna (essive plural)
palloin (essive plural)
paloloin (essive plural)
palont (exessive singular)
paloint (exessive plural)
paloloint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *palo, equivalent to pallaa (“to burn”) + -o. Cognates include Finnish palo and Estonian palu.


royal blue

en-adj

royal blue (comparative more royal blue, superlative most royal blue)

more royal blue (comparative)
most royal blue (superlative)


Cambridge blue

en-noun

Cambridge blue (countable and uncountable, plural Cambridge blues)

Perhaps related to the colour of a body of water: Cambridge has a famous boating club, and at one time used light blue as a school colour. "The greening of Cambridge blue is often attributed to Alf Twinn, university boatman between 1934 and 1984, who, either because he wanted to distinguish the rowing colours from the rugby union team's, or because his eyesight was deteriorating, began adding subtle amounts of yellow to the blue paint used for oar blades."

Cambridge blue:

A medium spring green colour used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge.


clair de lune

Borrowed from French clair de lune (“moonlight”).

clair de lune:


clair de lune

Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight]:

And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.


cool gray

cool gray:


cinereous

en-adj

cinereous (comparative more cinereous, superlative most cinereous)

more cinereous (comparative)
most cinereous (superlative)

Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).


cornsilk

cornsilk:

A very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.

Alternative form of corn silk (the thready fibres of stigmata of corn (maize))


cornsilk

Of a very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.


cupreous

cupreous (comparative more cupreous, superlative most cupreous)

more cupreous (comparative)
most cupreous (superlative)

From Latin cupreus, from cuprum (“copper”).

Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.


burnt sienna

We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.

1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:

burnt sienna:

dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.


burnt sienna

Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.


blue green

en-noun

blue green (countable and uncountable, plural blue greens)

* blue + green
* (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism

blue green:

Blue-greens were the principal primary producers throughout the Proterozoic eon from 2.5 billion to 543 million years ago.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 287:


blue green

Alternative form of blue-green
Of a bluish green colour.

(politics) Synonym of ecocapitalist; Pertaining to ecocapitalism


virid

en-adj

virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)

more virid (comparative)
most virid (superlative)

From Middle English viride (“verdigris”, adjective, noun) [and other forms] + English -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latin viridis (“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō (“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert.

der

Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 94, page 231:

The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.

1758, [James Macpherson], The Highlander: […], Edinburgh: […] Wal[ter] Ruddiman jun. and Company, →OCLC, canto IV, page 52:

Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.

1921 October, James Branch Cabell, “The Story of the Satraps”, in Chivalry: Dizain des Reines, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 170:

His protuberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.

1977, Angela Carter, chapter 2, in The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 13:

When the liver has been struck by wind, the victim desires only to squat down and is unable even to lower his head. If the skin around the eyes and on the forehead has taken on a slightly virid hue, the lips have turned virid, and the face yellow, treatment is still possible. […] If, however, the color is a deeply virid or even black and if the face is sometimes yellow and sometimes white, the liver has already suffered irreparable harm.

1985, Paul U[lrich] Unschuld, “[Appendix: Primary Texts in Translation] Chu-ping yüan hou lun”, in Medicine in China: A History of Ideas (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, section 3.1 (Symptomatology of [the Illness] “Hit-by-Wind”), page 297:


émeraude

Inherited from Old French esmeralde, esmeragde, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus (“emerald”), from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos, “emerald”), from a Semitic language.


eggshell blue

The sky was clear and eggshell blue.

2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 63:


Bunsen burner

Named after German chemist and inventor Robert Bunsen, who invented the burner.

named-after

The due performance of Bunsen's burner depends upon the proper admixture of gas and air.

1866, John Joseph Griffin, Chemical Handicraft: A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus:

Although the Bunsen burner has been in extensive use for several years, there would seem to be a very well-grounded suspicion that its capabilities have not yet been fully discovered, for applications for patents for inventions, which are based on the Bunsen burner, or on modifications of it, are occasionally found in the official journal of the Patent Office.

1875 October 1, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 22, page 56:

Flame sterilisation is a frequently used technique in the microbiology laboratory and Bunsen burners are commonly used to provide the flame.

2007, Ilan Patrick, Microbiological Analysis of Grapes and Wine: Techniques and Concepts:

(sciences) A small laboratory gas burner whose air supply may be controlled with an adjustable hole.


eau de nil

Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”).


dove grey

dove grey:

(British spelling) A medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.


dove grey

The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.

1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:

(British spelling) Of a medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.


gunmetal-grey

The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...

2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:

Of a dark grey colour with a tint of blue.


cerulean

en-adj

cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)

more cerulean (comparative)
most cerulean (superlative)

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).

affix

As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:

Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

1995, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, in 1. Outside, performed by David Bowie:

But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets?

2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):


burgundy

en-adj

burgundy (comparative more burgundy, superlative most burgundy)

more burgundy (comparative)
most burgundy (superlative)

1881, from attributive use of Burgundy (“wine from Burgundy”) from Burgundy wine, from Burgundy (“region of France”) + wine.

She and her beige-chemised assistant entered the salonlike fourth-floor showroom and were ushered into a smaller private room with burgundy carpeting that matched Rubylee's J. Tiktiner print dress.

1981, “Texas Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 9, number 1, page 96:

Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.


butterscotch

en-noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

der

A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.

A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.

奶油糖漿

butterscotch:

A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.


butterscotch

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.


buckskin

en-noun

buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-buckskin.wav

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.

I have alluded to his buckskins.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

buckskin:

A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

abaní

a soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin

Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.

1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:

A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat.


gamboge

gamboge (countable and uncountable, plural gamboges)

From New Latin gambogium, cambogium (“resin from trees used to make yellow dye”), from New Latin Gambogia, Cambogia (“Cambodia”). The Latin word was first attested in English as a colour in 1634. Doublet of Cambodia and Kampuchea.

Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ, a natural order of trees or shrubs belonging to the Dicotyledons (division Thalamifloræ), natives of the humid tropics of S. America. [...] Most of the plants have acrid properties, and yield a yellow resin. Among the chief and common plants of the order are Gambooge (q.v.), Mangosteen fruit (Garcinia Mangostana), [...]

1877, “Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Encyclopædia of Universal Information, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], →OCLC, page 178, column 2:

One of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.


brick red

Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.


gainsboro

A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.

gainsboro:

By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.

2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Usenet):

When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.

2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11:


floral white

floral white:


éclat

→ English: éclat

→ German: Eklat

Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit, slate, slat.

der

(Louisiana, in the plural) tinder, kindling


reseda

From French réséda, from Latin resēda, said by Pliny the Elder (23–79 C.E.) to be from resēdāre (“to soothe”), from re- (“again”) + sēdāre (“to assuage, calm”)), an allusion to the healing properties of the plant.

About the middle of this month, if the ſeaſon proves favourable, you may plant out your hardy annuals, ſuch as Marvel of Peru, Sweet Sultan, China After or Starwort, Sweet Reſeda called Mignonette d'Egypt, French and African Marigolds, Female Balſamine, Capſicum, Brown Jolly, and ſeveral other ſorts, which, if artfully diſpoſed, will afford an agreeable pleaſure, after the beauty of ſpring is paſt; […]

1757, Philip Miller, “May”, in The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be Done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery. With Accounts I. Of the Particular Seasons for the Propagation of All Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Seasons wherein Each Sort is Proper for the Table. II. Of All Sorts of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, with the Time of Their Flowering in Each Month, 11th edition, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford-Theatre, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 146:

Reseda or mignonette is grown in the Grasse region [of France]. The tendency for green notes in recent years has given fresh interest to the reseda note. Absolute oil of reseda has an odour recalling that of violet leaves, but with a rather fine 'powdery' background and a suggestion of rose and a little basil.

[2003], H. Panda, “Raw Materials: Products of Natural Origin”, in The Complete Technology Book on Herbal Perfumes & Cosmetics, New Delhi: Ajay Kr. Gupta, National Institute of Industrial Research, →ISBN, page 92:

Reseda odorata
Reseda odorata#Translingual

(botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).


flare

→ Italian: flare

Origin unknown, first recorded in the mid 16th century, probably related to Latin flagrō (“I burn”). Norwegian flara (“to blaze; to flaunt in gaudy attire”) has a similar meaning, but the English word predates it. Possibly related to Middle High German vlederen (“to flutter”), represented by modern German flattern.
The noun is derived from the verb.

unknown

Origin unknown

Stulp

widening of an object with otherwise roughly constant width

разкрояване

widening of the lower legs of trousers and jeans

Flares were used to steer the traffic away from the accident.

The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.

Stowed away in the plane Jack had a signal pistol and several red and green cartridges, but until a search plane appeared the flares would be useless.

1946, Clayton Knight, The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 262:

While he was putting on the snowplough, the Whites shot up a flare to see what was happening. It floated above us like a fizzing star at the end of a tiny white petal of a parachute. We threw ourselves down, in between the rails, in there with the dog shit.

2009, James Fleming, chapter 55, in Cold Blood, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2010, →ISBN, page 262:

A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.

Flare stacks are used in gas plants, petroleum refineries, and petrochemical plants to combust surplus hydrocarbons to produce combustion products that are neither toxic nor combustible. Flares frequently incorporate a liquid-gas separator at the base of the stack and steam assisted burner nozzles at the top of the stack to aid complete combustion.

2013, David Brennan, “Identification of Waste in Utility Systems”, in Sustainable Process Engineering: Concepts, Strategies, Evaluation, and Implementation, Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, →ISBN, part B (Strategies), section 6.8 (Flare Stacks), page 122:

(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.

solar flare

I was looking in the direction of the lightship off and on from the time we first sighted her. I could not be mistaken in such a matter as a flare-up light. By a flare-up light I mean a large bright light waved in the air, something like a torch dipped in resin and waved about. I am prepared to say that any person who has sworn that she shewed a flare-up light from the lightship while the Kanagawa Maru was passing has perjured himself.

1876 January 28, “Japanese Consulate General, Shanghai. Before E. Shinagawa, Esq., Consul-General. Jan. 22, 1876. Capt. Roper v. Mitsu Bishi Mail S.S. Co.”, in The Japan Mail. A Fortnightly Summary of Intelligence from Japan, […], volume VII, number 9, Yokohama: Printed and published for the proprietor by H. Collins, […

[T]he forward deck near the house was all saturated with spilt oil and there was a quantity of oakum lying about, some of which possibly had been used for flares or distress signals.

1913 December 13, “The Inquest Resumed. [Captain Froggatt’s Report.]”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette: The Weekly Edition of the North-China Daily News, volume CIX (New Series), number 2418, Shanghai: Printed and published for the proprietors, The North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., […], →OCLC, page 807, column 2:

In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 87–88:

We made a movie picture by the use of flares, the brilliant light startling the blacks, but their surprise quickly gave way to enthusiasm,—just another of the white bwana's magic powers.

1926, Edwin S. George, “African Nights”, in Cairo to Cape: Four Afoot through Africa, New York, N.Y.: The Knickerbocker Press, →OCLC, page 195:

The white light during M dwarf flares has long been known to exhibit the broadband shape of a T ≈ 10 000 K blackbody, and the white light in solar-flares is thought to arise primarily from hydrogen recombination. Yet, a current lack of broad-wavelength coverage solar flare spectra in the optical/near-UV region prohibits a direct comparison of the continuum properties to determine if they are indeed so different. New spectroscopic observations of a secondary flare during the decay of a megaflare on the dM4.5e star YZ CMi have revealed multiple components in the white-light continuum of stellar flares, including both a blackbody-like spectrum and a hydrogen-recombination spectrum.

2012 March, A. F. Kowalski, S. L. Hawley, J. A. Holtzmann, J. P. Wisniewski, E. J. Hilton, “The Multiple Continuum Components in the White-light Flare of 16 January 2009 on the dM4.5e Star YZ CMi”, in Solar Physics, volume 277, number 1, →DOI, page 21; republished in Yuhong Fan and George Fisher, editors, Solar Flare Magnetic Fields and Plasmas, New York, N.Y., Dordrecht: Springer, 2012, →ISBN, abstract, page 21:

In the early 1970's, a giddy epoch in men's fashion, when denim flares and platform oxfords were the outer edge of style, Giorgio Armani made a suit that stretched. Imbued with spandex, the elastic fiber that gives a fabric extra bounce, the suit was one of the first in a long line of innovations that would eventually make Armani as familiar a brand as Kleenex.

1991 September 15, Ruth La Ferla, “Next weave”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 2018-08-20:

As a teenager I hitch-hiked around free rock concerts, wearing flowered shirts and denim flares – jeans that were worn so much, in such rough conditions, and with so little attention to washing and care that after a while they became naturally abraded and frayed in just the manner that is simulated by commerce today.

2012, Daniel Miller, “Why Denim?”, in Consumption and Its Consequences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 94:

The defect in question is the flare which frequently arises from the use of compound lenses when there is a very bright object in front, resulting in a ghost-like image of that object being thrown upon the plate. If the image of the object thus duplicated be in focus we designate it a "ghost;" if out of focus we call it "flare."

1874 October 23, “On Certain Defects in Combination Landscape Lenses”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XXI, number 755, London: Henry Greenwood, […], →OCLC, page 515, column 1:


flare

en-verb

flare (third-person singular simple present flares, present participle flaring, simple past and past participle flared)

flares (present singular third-person)
flaring (participle present)
flared (participle past)
flared (past)

unknown

Origin unknown

Qatar joined the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction programme in early 2008, indicating its commitment to reducing the process of flaring the gas found with oil deposits.

2008, “Going Green: The Country is Keen to Increase Its Environmental Credentials”, in The Report: Qatar 2008, [s.l.]: Oxford Business Group, →ISBN, marginal note, page 247:

One time I was working with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) on fueling their fleet, and I was surprised to see them flaring the methane at their wastewater facility.

2013 April, Blair L. Pollock, “Doing New Things”, in Lyle Estill, editor, Small Stories Big Changes: Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN, page 147:

(transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.

The blast furnace flared in the night.

Thou rear'st thy stately neck, / And, while I list, thou flarest in men's eyes / A gorgeous queen; […]

1802, Joanna Baillie, “Ethwald: A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Part Second.”, in A Series of Plays: In which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene v, page 351:

And when Slaughter and Pillage begin to tire, / High flareth red Fire! / How he roars and hisses and flashes! / His frenzy soon turns / The proud pile to a mass of grey ashes, […]

1846 June, “Anthologia Germanica, No. XXII. Uhland’s Ballads.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume XXVII, number CLXII, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, page 678:

This phrase was "Flare up!" and it is, even now, a colloquialism in common use. It took its rise in the time of the Reform riots, when Bristol was nearly half burned by the infuriated populace. The flames were said to have flared up in the devoted city.

1850, Charles Mackay, “Popular Follies in Great Cities”, in Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 218:

Now spent night her watchers spareth, / Now the sun's bright banner flareth, / Now morn's gale day's trump is blowing.

1860, R[obert] W[ilson] Evans, “XV. Christian Battle.”, in Daily Hymns, London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, page 38:

On he went a few paces and touched a second, then a third, and a fourth, till at last we were surrounded on all three sides by a great ring of bodies flaring furiously, the material with which they were preserved having rendered them so inflammable that the flames would literally spout out of the ears and mouth in tongues of fire a foot or more in length.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


solar wind

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(astronomy) The outflow of charged particles from the solar corona into space. Because of the high temperature of the particles of the corona, they are moving at speeds higher than the solar escape velocity.


lurid

en-adj

lurid (comparative more lurid, superlative most lurid)

more lurid (comparative)
most lurid (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”).

The accident was described with lurid detail.

Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.

2021 May 22, Dalya Alberge, “John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel”, in The Observer:

Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex.

Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;

Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.

1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 86:

The great banths sniffed the unfamiliar odours, and then with a rush they broke past us with low growls, swarming across the gardens beneath the lurid light of the nearer moon.

1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Corridors of Peril”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 85:

The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.

a lurid plant with maroon leaves and pink flowers

(botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red.

(zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.


ner

rm-adj

ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)

nera (feminine singular)
ners (masculine plural)
neras (feminine plural)


celadon

en-noun

celadon (usually uncountable, plural celadons)

Washington D.C. (canonical)
celadons (plural)

Borrowed from the French céladon from the character named Céladon, who wore pale green ribbons, in the novel L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, from Latin Celadon, a warrior's name in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

celadon:

A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray.

from the Ming Dynasty. Smithsonian Institution


celadon

en-adj

celadon (comparative more celadon, superlative most celadon)

more celadon (comparative)
most celadon (superlative)

[H]e stroked a soft blue cat with celadon eyes which had appeared from nowhere and now made itself comfortable in his lap […].

1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 40:

Of a pale green colour tinted with gray.


celadon

celadon (indefinite nominative singular)
celadons (genitive indefinite singular)
celadonen (definite nominative singular)
celadonens (definite genitive singular)
celadoner (indefinite nominative plural)
celadoners (genitive indefinite plural)
celadonerna (definite nominative plural)
celadonernas (definite genitive plural)

celadon (color, ceramic glaze, and ceramic ware)


topaz

en-noun

topaz (usually uncountable, plural topazes)

→ Irish: tópás

→ Welsh: topas

From Old French topace (compare French topaze), from Ancient Greek τόπαζος (tópazos).

Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz. / Eglington. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Saphyr three Flower-de-Liss Topaz, for Montgomery; 2d and 3d, Ruby three Anulets Topaz', ston'd Saphyr, for the Title of Eglington; […]

1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:

The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. […] 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz.

1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:

(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. (3) Ruby, three covered Cups, Topaz […]

1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:

(heraldry) Or (gold or yellow), in blazoning by precious stones.

A ruby-topaz hummingbird, Chrysolampis mosquitus, the male of which has bright ruby feathers on the head and topaz on the throat


eggshell

From Middle English eggeshell, ege schelle, egg-shel, egg shelle (also as Middle English eye schell, ey-schel, ey-schelle), partially continuing Old English ǣġsċill, ǣġsċyll (“eggshell”), equivalent to egg + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oaierskil (“eggshell”), Dutch eierschaal (“eggshell”), German Eierschale (“eggshell”), Danish æggeskal (“eggshell”), Swedish äggskal (“eggshell”).

cog

eggshell:

A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.


claret

en-verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

clarets (present singular third-person)
clareting (participle present)
clareted (participle past)
clareted (past)

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus.
Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

By night, again, we miss the bright cafe, the brilliantly illuminated offices, and the fringe of guests smoking and clareting […]

1869, Andrew Wynter, Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers:

(intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.


hot pink

en-adj

hot pink (comparative more hot pink, superlative most hot pink)

more hot pink (comparative)
most hot pink (superlative)

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eggplant

en-noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

Solanum melongena
Solanum melongena#Translingual

(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena.


lemon chiffon

lemon chiffon:

A very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.


lemon chiffon

Of a very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.


grizzle

From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.


grizzle

en-verb

grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)

grizzles (present singular third-person)
grizzling (participle present)
grizzled (participle past)
grizzled (past)

[Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?

1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911:

R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?

1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4850:

The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.

2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.

New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry


Caca

(Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth.


lovat

en-noun

lovat (countable and uncountable, plural lovats)

lovat:


citrine

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

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From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

citrine:

[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]

1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :

dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.

c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242

A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.


citrine

The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:


mint cream

mint cream (countable and uncountable, plural mint creams)

mint cream:

A very faint green colour, like that of crème de menthe.

A chocolate filled with peppermint fondant.


mint cream

Of a very faint green colour, like that of crème de menthe.


misty rose

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Of very faint pink color, like that of a rose veiled in mist.


goldenrod

goldenrod (countable and uncountable, plural goldenrods)

/ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/

Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus Solidago (also Oligoneuron), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers.

She wore a goldenrod dress with a scooping neckline.

2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 160:

goldenrod:

A golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.


goldenrod

en-adj

goldenrod (comparative more goldenrod, superlative most goldenrod)

more goldenrod (comparative)
most goldenrod (superlative)

/ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/

Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.


Navajo white

en-noun

Navajo white (countable and uncountable, plural Navajo whites)

Navajo white:

Navajo white (color corresponding to RGB code FFDEAD)


moss green

dark moss green:

A dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.

pale moss green:

A pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.


moss green

Of a dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.

Of a pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.


moreno

ca-adj

moreno (feminine morena, masculine plural morenos, feminine plural morenes)

morena (feminine)
morenos (masculine plural)
morenes (feminine plural)


selenography

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(astronomy, geography, cartography) The scientific study of the Moon's geographic features; geography of the Moon.


seleno-

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seleno- + -centric → selenocentric


pea green

pea green:

A medium green colour, like that of peas.


pea green

The pea-green colour of the South-Western engines, with the curious buff-and-amber of the carriages, was also a novelty, as were the raised top-decks of the older guards' vans.

1939 June, T.R. Perkins, “My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine, page 400:

Of a yellowish green colour, like that of peas.


off-white

en-noun

off-white (countable and uncountable, plural off-whites)

off-white:

A very pale colour that is almost white.


off-white

Of a very pale colour that is almost white.

възбя́л

of a very pale colour that is almost white


hoar

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

der

hoar:

His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, 10th edition, London: For J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, page 52:


hoar

hoar waters

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:

old trees with trunks all hoar

1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CI:

Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire:

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 134:

Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.

1648, Lancelot Andrewes, A manual of directions for the sick with many sweet meditations and devotions of the R. Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews, late L. Bishop of Winchester: to which are added praiers for the morning, evening and H. communion, page 202:

The great popularity of the Stuarts—certainly more allied to personal causes than we can at present calculate—is a curious fact. It was not one of those feelings drawn from hoar antiquity, when habit has become religion.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

(archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.


old lace

old lace:

A off-white colour, like that of old lace.


old lace

Of an off-white colour, like that of old lace.


tow-colored

Of a pale yellow colour, like that of flax.


rifle green

en-noun

rifle green (countable and uncountable, plural rifle greens)

rifle green:

A dark green colour, like that of the British Army rifleman uniform.


rifle green

Of a dark green colour, like that of the British Army rifleman uniform.


saddle brown

saddle brown:

A medium brown colour, like that of a saddle.


saddle brown

Of a medium brown colour, like that of a saddle.


pearl grey

pearl grey:

A pale grey colour, tinted with blue, like that of some pearls.


pearl grey

Of a pale grey colour, tinted with blue, like that of some pearls.


spring green

spring green (countable and uncountable, plural spring greens)

spring green:

The chip smells like nothing, but tastes like a smörgåsbord that’s both confusing and arousing, like Steve Buscemi. Flecks of spring green – the kind generated from radioactive waste – coat the unwieldy triangles. The seasoning is a kaleidoscope of Day-Glo dust particles that perishes under saliva and tongue.

2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:

A fresh green colour that reminds one of spring.


spring green

Of a fresh green colour that reminds one of spring.


sage green

sage green:

A greyish green colour, like that of sage.


sage green

Of a greyish green colour, like that of sage.

сивозелен

of a greyish green colour, like that of sage


slate gray

slate gray (countable and uncountable, plural slate grays)

slate gray:

savenharmaa

dark bluish-grey colour — see also slate, slate blue, blue-gray


slate gray

schiefergrau

of a dark bluish-grey colour — see also of a dark bluish-grey colour


pearly

pearly (countable and uncountable, plural pearlies)

pearly:

In nature we as often find the light cool as warm; also in the pictures of many of the Flemish and Dutch schools, where, as Sir Joshua himself mentions, " the silver gray or pearly is predominant, and are valued by the connoisseurs in proportion as they possess this excellence of a silver tint."

1830, John Burnet, A practical treatise on painting, page 3:

Pearly is that silky and often coloured lustre which renders of such value

When (the scales are) more developed and thickened, the color (pearly) is deepened, shading

1899, St. Louis medical and surgical journal, page 126:

(uncountable, uncommon, dated) A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue.

(countable, British, slang, especially in plural) A tooth.


pearly

en-adj

pearly (comparative pearlier, superlative pearliest)

pearlier (comparative)
pearliest (superlative)

Of a pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue.


violet red

Of a deep purplish pink colour, like that of some violets.


sky blue

sky blue (comparative more sky blue, superlative most sky blue)

more sky blue (comparative)
most sky blue (superlative)

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“Hi! Kostandi!” called out an old sailor in a sky-blue cloak. “How are things with you?”

1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

Of a vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.


malachite

malachite (comparative more malachite, superlative most malachite)

more malachite (comparative)
most malachite (superlative)

From Middle French malachite, from Latin molochītis, from Ancient Greek μολόχη (molókhē, “[leaf of the ... ] mallow plant”).

der

Of a colour ranging from olive-taupe to a mild to deeply-rich (at times seemingly translucent) green, like that of the mineral which is present on oxidized copper.


sunce

sȗnce (canonical neuter)
су̑нце (Cyrillic)
sȗnce (nominative singular)
sunca (nominative plural)
sunca (genitive singular)
sȕnācā (genitive plural)
sȗncā (genitive plural)
suncu (dative singular)
suncima (dative plural)
sunce (accusative singular)
sunca (accusative plural)
sunce (singular vocative)
sunca (plural vocative)
suncu (locative singular)
suncima (locative plural)
suncem (instrumental singular)
suncima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъlnьce, from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.


silver-grey

silver-grey:


royal purple

en-noun

royal purple (countable and uncountable, plural royal purples)

royal purple:


royal purple

Of a deep vibrant reddish purple colour.


honeydew

honeydew (countable and uncountable, plural honeydews)

The noun is derived from honey + dew, originally believed to be a form of dew that fell from the sky like rain onto plants (see sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

[F]reſh teares / Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honie dew, / Vpon a gathred Lillie almoſt withered.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

In India, and eſpecially in the region of the Praſians, it raineth many times a dew like liquid hony falling vppon the hearbs and graſſe of the earth: wherefore the ſhepheards lead their flocks vnto thoſe places, wherwithal their cattle are much delighted, and ſuch as is the food they eat, ſuch alſo is the taſt of the milke they render; […] Such a kind of dew the Hæbrewes call Manna, the Græcians Aeromelos, and Droſomelos: The Germaines Himmelhung: and in Engliſh Honny-dew: […]

1658, Edward Topsel [i.e., Edward Topsell], “Of the Sheepe”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents: […], London: […] E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge […], T. Williams […], and T. Johnson […], →OCLC, page 603:

Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread: / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drank the milk of Paradise.

1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 58:

(uncountable) A sweet liquid substance resembling the substance mentioned in sense 1, such as honey, nectar, or manna in the Bible.

مَنّ

(countable) Short for honeydew melon (“a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind”).

honeydew melon

honeydew:

(uncountable) A light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.


honeydew

en-adj

honeydew (comparative more honeydew, superlative most honeydew)

more honeydew (comparative)
most honeydew (superlative)

Of a light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.


amaranthine

en-noun

amaranthine (countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines)

/ˌæm.əˈɹæn.θɪn/

1660s, coined by Milton, originally in sense "unfading", as amaranth + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “unfading”). Later used for color.

uder

Ah! when the eternal morning dawns,
And amaranthines shall displace the thorns […]

1857, Eleanor Duckworth, Milly Wentworth, Poems and Sketches, page 65:


wheaten

en-adj

wheaten (comparative more wheaten, superlative most wheaten)

more wheaten (comparative)
most wheaten (superlative)

From Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten (“wheaten”); equivalent to wheat + -en.

Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.


wheaten

wheaten:

A pale yellow or beige colour, like that of wheat.


Congo red

en-noun

Congo red (countable and uncountable, plural Congo reds)

A dye that turns red in alkaline, blue in acidic solutions.


pistachio green

pistachio green (plural pistachio greens)

pistachio green:

A pale yellow-green colour, like that of the pistachio nut.


pistachio green

Of a pale yellow-green colour, like that of the pistachio nut.


platinum blond

platinum blond (countable and uncountable, plural platinum blonds)


titian

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

lang

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Titian</i>

titian:

A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.


titian

en-adj

titian (comparative more titian, superlative most titian)

more titian (comparative)
most titian (superlative)

Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.


heather

en-noun

heather (countable and uncountable, plural heathers)

From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”).

The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.

1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:

Calluna vulgaris
Calluna vulgaris#Translingual

An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.

heather:

A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.


heather

Of a purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.


vitt

white; legally, in accordance with (tax) laws and regulations


зрак

bg-noun

зрак • (zrak) m (relational adjective зра́чен)

zrak (romanization)
зра́чен (adjective relational)
зрак (indefinite singular)
зра́кове (indefinite plural)
зра́ци (indefinite plural)
зра́кът (definite singular subjective)
зра́ковете (definite plural subjective)
зра́ците (definite plural subjective)
зра́ка (definite objective singular)
зра́ковете (definite objective plural)
зра́ците (definite objective plural)
зра́ка (count-form plural)

bg-ndecl

зрак<+ове+и>

взра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)

призра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)

прозра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)

(poetic, usually in the singular) ray, beam of light

лу́нен зрак

(poetic, usually in the singular) low, scattered light


зрак

zrak (romanization)
зракче (diminutive)
зрак (indefinite singular)
зраци (indefinite plural)
зракот (definite singular unspecified)
зраците (definite plural unspecified)
зраков (definite proximal singular)
зрациве (definite plural proximal)
зракон (definite distal singular)
зрацине (definite distal plural)
зраку (singular vocative)
зраци (plural vocative)
зрака (count-form plural)


зрак

зра̑к (canonical masculine)
zrȃk (romanization)
зрак (nominative singular)
зраци (nominative plural)
зрака (genitive singular)
зрака (genitive plural)
зраку (dative singular)
зрацима (dative plural)
зрак (accusative singular)
зраке (accusative plural)
зраче (singular vocative)
зраци (plural vocative)
зраку (locative singular)
зрацима (locative plural)
зраком (instrumental singular)
зрацима (instrumental plural)


chrome red

en-noun

chrome red (countable and uncountable, plural chrome reds)


oxblood

en-adj

oxblood (comparative more oxblood, superlative most oxblood)

more oxblood (comparative)
most oxblood (superlative)

He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.


badam

ms-noun

badam (Jawi spelling بادم, plural badam-badam, informal 1st possessive badamku, 2nd possessive badammu, 3rd possessive badamnya)

بادم (Jawi)
badam-badam (plural)
badamku (first-person informal possessive)
badammu (possessive second-person)
badamnya (possessive third-person)

Indonesian: badam

From Classical Malay بادم (badam), from Classical Persian بادام (bādām).


badam

almond (resembling the colour of an almond nut)


sunlight

en-noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

cog

Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.

রোদ

electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun

(figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.


aingeal

head

aingeal m (genitive singular aingil, nominative plural aingil)

aingil (genitive singular)
aingil (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
aingeal (indefinite singular)
aingil (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a aingil (indefinite singular)
a aingeala (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
aingil (indefinite singular)
aingeal (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-aingeal (definite singular)
na haingil (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an aingil (definite singular)
na n-aingeal (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an aingeal (definite singular)
don aingeal (definite singular)
leis na haingil (definite plural)

From Old Irish aingel, from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).


aingeal

aingil (genitive singular)
aingil (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
aingeal (indefinite singular)
aingil (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a aingil (indefinite singular)
a aingeala (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
aingil (indefinite singular)
aingeal (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-aingeal (definite singular)
na haingil (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an aingil (definite singular)
na n-aingeal (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an aingeal (definite singular)
don aingeal (definite singular)
leis na haingil (definite plural)
aingeal
n-aingeal
haingeal
t-aingeal

From Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”).


aingeal

head

aingeal m (genitive singular aingil, plural aingil or ainglean)

aingil (genitive singular)
aingil (plural)
ainglean (plural)
aingeal
n-aingeal

/ˈã(ĩ)ŋʲɡʲal̪ˠ/


ashy

en-adj

ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)

ashier (comparative)
ashiest (superlative)

From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.

Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:

Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,

1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 126:

Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.

1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123:

Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

[…] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:

[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:

He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.

1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press:

Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.


pewter

en-noun

pewter (countable and uncountable, plural pewters)

→ Welsh: piwter

From Middle English peutre, from Old French peautre, from Vulgar Latin *peltrum (“pewter”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly related to spelter.


purpure

From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

purpure:

(heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.


purpure

(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.


seashell

The seashells on the beach are toxic and best avoided.

seashell:

A very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.


seashell

Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.


swot

head

swot (masculine swotten, feminine, plural or definite swotte, comparative swotter, superlative swotst)

swotten (masculine)
swotte (definite plural)
swotter (comparative)
swotst (superlative)

From Old Frisian swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart. Cognates include German schwarz and West Frisian swart.


Blau

de-noun

Blau n (strong, genitive Blaus, plural Blau or Blaus)

Blaus (genitive)
Blau (plural)
Blaus (plural)
Blau (nominative singular)
Blau (definite nominative plural)
Blaus (definite nominative plural)
Blaus (genitive singular)
Blau (definite genitive plural)
Blaus (definite genitive plural)
Blau (dative singular)
Blau (dative definite plural)
Blaus (dative definite plural)
Blau (accusative singular)
Blau (accusative definite plural)
Blaus (accusative definite plural)

(uncountable) the colour blue (as a whole)

(countable) a particular tone of blue
(heraldry) azure; blue in heraldry

a particular tone of blue
azure; blue in heraldry

Wir jagen mit tausend Sachen durch das weite Blau.

We’re racing through the wide blue at 1000 km/h.

(generally uncountable) a vast blue area, especially:


Blau

Sie hod grose blaue Aue


sorrel

en-noun

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”); equivalent to sour + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English sūre (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“dock (plant), sorrel”). More at sour.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa#Translingual

Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially

Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.

Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.

Now, many people drink alcohol, but when I was a child I remember drinking sorrel, ginger beer and drinks made from fresh fruits such as soursop and passion-fruit. Sorrel was prepared over a long period, not as quickly as it is now.

2007, African and Caribbean Celebrations, →ISBN, page 56:

For instance, one day we were sitting on the porch, looking down at the lagoon and the yachts from all over the world. He was drinking ginger beer mixed with rum, and I was drinking sorrel. No rum. Out of nowhere, he proposed.

2009, C. C. Alick, Dancing with the Yumawalli: Inspired by True Events, page 62:

Joy and the parents did not go either; we spent a quiet day at home, eating roast chicken and stuffing with our own green-gungu rice and peas, and drinking sorrel.

2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:

Hibiscus sabdariffa
Hibiscus sabdariffa#Translingual

A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.


sorrel

From Middle English *sorel, from Middle French *sorel, sorrel, surrel, from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”), probably from Old Frankish *saur (“dried”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *saus- (“dry, parched”); equivalent to sore (“reddish-brown”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch soor (“dry”), Old High German sōrēn (“to become dry”), and Old English sēar (“withered, barren”). See also sere.

suffix

sorrel:


sorrel

A little harmless gossip ensued on various themes, such as where old Aunt Sally got her new red head-kerchief, and how "Missis was a going to give Lizzy that spotted muslin gown, when she 'd got her new berage made up;" and how Mas'r Shelby was thinking of buying a new sorrel colt, that was going to prove an addition to the glories of the place.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 4, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 50:

Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)


gules

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gules.wav

From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.

uder

gules:

(heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.


gules

The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.

Now is he total gules, horridly tricked

1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:

You know they still
Call themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,
And everything relating to a Bull
Is popular and respectable in Thebes.
Their arms are seven Bulls in a field gules;
They think their strength consists in eating beef,—

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.


Chinese red

Of a vivid red colour tinted with orange.


Creme

de-noun

Creme f (genitive Creme, plural Cremes or Cremen)

Creme (genitive)
Cremes (plural)
Cremen (plural)
Creme (nominative singular)
Cremes (definite nominative plural)
Cremen (definite nominative plural)
Creme (genitive singular)
Cremes (definite genitive plural)
Cremen (definite genitive plural)
Creme (dative singular)
Cremes (dative definite plural)
Cremen (dative definite plural)
Creme (accusative singular)
Cremes (accusative definite plural)
Cremen (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: krém (also via French)

→ Yiddish: קרעם (krem) (possibly)

Crème

standard in Switzerland, optional in Germany


vit

vit (indefinite positive)
vitare (comparative indefinite)
vitast (indefinite superlative)
vitt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
vitare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
vitast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
vita (indefinite plural positive)
vitare (comparative indefinite plural)
vitast (indefinite plural superlative)
vite (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
vitare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
vitast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
vite (definite masculine positive singular)
vitare (comparative definite masculine singular)
vitaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
vita (definite positive)
vitare (comparative definite)
vitaste (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish hvīter, from Old Norse hvítr, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos.

– De ljusa männen äkta ibland mörka kvinnor, och deras barn bli ljusa; men ännu aldrig har en svart man fått en vit kvinna

1917, August Strindberg, “Sagan om Stig Storverks son.”, in Hövdingaminnen, page 11:

– The light men sometimes marry dark women, and their children become light; but yet never has a black man got a white woman.

En politisk affisch där en vit man och en svart kvinna håller om varandra väcker debatt i Sydafrika.

2012, Görrel Espelund, Andreas Karlsson, “Historien väger tungt för Sydafrikas unga”, in Sydsvenskan:

A political poster where a white man and a black woman hug each other is provoking debate in South Africa.

Coordinate term: original

Försäljningen av vitt snus ökade med 255(!) procent medan nikotinfritt snus ökade med 20 procent.

2019, Joakim Almén, “Det här är svenskarnas favoritsnus”, in Café:

White snus sales increased by 255(!) percent while nicotine-free snus increased by 20 percent.

a style of portion snus that has not been post-moisturized, is less runny, and has a more even taste


Brand

Brand m (strong, genitive Brandes or Brands, plural Brände)

Brandes (genitive)
Brands (genitive)
Brände (plural)
Brand (nominative singular)
Brände (definite nominative plural)
Brandes (genitive singular)
Brands (genitive singular)
Brände (definite genitive plural)
Brand (dative singular)
Brande (dative singular)
Bränden (dative definite plural)
Brand (accusative singular)
Brände (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German brant, from Old High German brant, from Proto-West Germanic *brand. Cognate with Bavarian Brånd and English brand.

Dein Name sei gelobt! Hüt uns vor drei: / Vor Wassernot und Brand und Kriegsgeschrei!

1872, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, “Das Kindlein in Mainz”, in Huttens letzte Tage:


Braun

de-proper noun

Braun m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Brauns or (with an article) Braun, feminine genitive Braun, plural Brauns)

Brauns (genitive masculine)
Braun (genitive masculine)
Braun (feminine genitive)
Brauns (plural)

a common surname transferred from the nickname, equivalent to English Brown


Braun

From the adjective braun, from Old High German brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.


Glut

Glut (genitive)
Gluten (plural)
Glut (nominative singular)
Gluten (definite nominative plural)
Glut (genitive singular)
Gluten (definite genitive plural)
Glut (dative singular)
Gluten (dative definite plural)
Glut (accusative singular)
Gluten (accusative definite plural)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German gluot, from Old High German gluot, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz. Cognates include English gleed, Dutch gloed, Icelandic glóð, Swedish glöd.

Ein Würstchen ist vom Rost in die Glut gefallen.

A sausage has fallen from the gridiron into the hot coals.