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


cerulean

en-adj

cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)

more cerulean (comparative)
most cerulean (superlative)
cærulean (alternative)

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):


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.


claret

en-noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

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

The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

CLARET JELLY SANDWICH: Soak one box of gelatine in one cup of cold water, then dissolve in one cup of boiling water, add one cup of sugar and strain. When cold, add the juice of half a lemon, and one cup of claret and set in a cool place. When ready for use, cover thin slices of lightly buttered white bread with the jelly, cover with another slice of buttered bread and cut in strips.

1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 155:

(chiefly UK) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.

Time being called, Johnson rose from his second’s knee with the heart of a lion—the immense size and weight of his opponent seemed lost sight of—not a particle of fear belonged to him; and screwing his courage up to the sticking-place, boldly faced his man, putting all the excellence of his science into action, put in such a tremendous blow on the sensitive plant of Perrins—otherwise his sneezer, or nose—whichever term you like best—that split it all the way down as if cut open with a carving-knife; the claret flowing in torrents; and the Giant floored!

1851, Pierce Egan, Every Gentleman’s Manual: A Lecture on the Art of Self-Defence, page 46:

I then gave him a dig on the head with my fist. He squared up, and pouted like an enraged chameleon, looking savagely at me. I gave him another dig, which sent him staggering. He squared again: I gave him another; till at last, as the claret was flowing, he sulked off, and said he would not serve me any more.

1863, John Hanning Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, page 271:

Blooded warrior Paul Ince, with his head bedecked in a bandage – if not quite possessing quite the amount of claret spilled by Terry Butcher in Stockholm in 1989 – enforcing order on a patch of green in Rome to help his country triumph in the face of adversity and clear a path to the World Cup finals of 1998.

2017 October 1, “Bygones: Ince gives blood for the cause as he leads from the front in Rome”, in Yorkshire Post:

You play as one of these Revenants, but there’s no feeding on human blood, as instead the most reliable source of claret comes from things called blood beads, which grow on plants.

2019 September 27, “Code Vein review – it's an anime version of Dark Souls”, in Metro:

He was rejuvenated within a week, thanks to a diet of fresh claret direct from the jugular, while the lawyer slept.

2020 January 2, Roxy Simons, “'How the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight, BBC?': Viewers are left terrified by first episode of Dracula with its decapitated nun and blood-thirsty babies (but some are distracted by vampire's quirky accent)”, in Daily Mail:

DeLuca beat the count but Brook had the stench of claret filling his nostrils and he was close to getting the finish before the bell saved the overmatched 31-year-old.

2020 February 8, Wally Downes Jr, “KELL OF A WIN: Kell Brook enjoys triumphant return in Sheffield as he knocks out Mark DeLuca in the seventh round”, in The Sun:


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)

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.


gamboge

en-noun

gamboge (countable and uncountable, plural gamboges)

gamboges (plural)
camboge (alternative)
gambooge (alternative)

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.


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:


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:


midnight blue

midnight blue:


sky blue

en-adj

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

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

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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.


sky blue

en-noun

sky blue (countable and uncountable, plural sky blues)

sky blues (plural)
sky-blue (alternative)

sky blue:

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


royal blue

en-adj

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

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


slate blue

en-noun

slate blue (countable and uncountable, plural slate blues)

slate blue:

liuskeenharmaa

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


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.


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.


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.


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:


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).


sea green

sea-green (alternative)
seagreen (alternative)


apple-green

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

apple-greens (plural)
apple green (alternative)

apple-green:

bright apple-green:

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


Alice blue

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


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

battleship grey (countable and uncountable, plural battleship greys)

battleship greys (plural)
battleship gray (alternative)
battleship-gray (alternative)
battleship-grey (alternative)

battleship grey:

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


battleship grey

battleship gray (alternative)
battleship-gray (alternative)
battleship-grey (alternative)

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


blood red

en-adj

blood red (comparative more blood red, superlative most blood red)

more blood red (comparative)
most blood red (superlative)
bloodred (alternative)
blood-red (alternative)

From Middle English blodred, blodread, Old English blōdrēad (“bloodred”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud, from Proto-Germanic *blōþaraudaz, equivalent to blood + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bloudrood (“bloodred”), West Frisian bloedread (“bloodred”), Dutch bloedrood (“bloodred”), Low German bloodrood (“bloodred”), German blutrot (“bloodred”), Swedish blodröd (“bloodred”), Icelandic blóðrauður (“bloodred”).


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


blue violet

blue violet (countable and uncountable, plural blue violets)

blue violet:


brick red

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


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.


buckskin

en-noun

buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)

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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.


burlywood

burlywood:

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


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.


butterscotch

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 /奶油糖浆

butterscotch:

A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.


butterscotch

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

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


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.


carroty

en-adj

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.


cinereous

cinereous (comparative more cinereous, superlative most cinereous)

more cinereous (comparative)
most cinereous (superlative)

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


cinnabar

cinnabar (comparative more cinnabar, superlative most cinnabar)

more cinnabar (comparative)
most cinnabar (superlative)

/ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/

/ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/

First attested in the mid-15th century. From Middle English cynabare, from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), of unknown origin.

Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.


citrine

en-noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

citrines (plural)
citrean (alternative)
citrinous (alternative)

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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

citrean (alternative)
citrinous (alternative)

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:


clair de lune

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

clair de lune:


cool gray

cool grays (plural)
cool grey (alternative)

cool gray:


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

en-adj

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.


firepole

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


dove grey

dove greys (plural)
dove gray (alternative)

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.


eau de nil

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

ubor

eau de Nil (alternative)
eau-de-nil (alternative)
eau-de-Nil (alternative)


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.


floral white

en-noun

floral white (countable and uncountable, plural floral whites)

floral white:


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:


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.


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.


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


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.


sheet lightning

en-noun

sheet lightning (usually uncountable, plural sheet lightnings)

In most very warm days in summer the thermometer stands above 70 degrees on the scale of Fahrenheit, about the centre of the county; in the summer of 1811, it stood repeatedly above 80°; and on the 25th of May, 1807, during the time when the sheet lightning of tropical regions appeared, about three in the afternoon, it stood at 92° in the shade within three miles of Moffat!

1812, General view of the agriculture, state of property, and improvements in the county of Dumfries:

It probably belongs to the class we are accustomed to call sheet lightnings, for these are by far the most frequent in an ordinary storm.

1859 October 7, “Marvels of Thunder-Storms”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 216:

The occurrence of sheet lightning in a particular district did not necessarily involve that a thunderstorm was experienced there, for it frequently happened that the storm was a long way off.

1890 January 7, William Marriott, “Second report of the thunderstorm committee”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 16, number 73:

K'iche' diviners believe that they have a kind of soul in their blood in the form of sheet lightning.

2014, Karen Bassie-Sweet, Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities, page 95:

A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.


lightning detector

lightning detector (plural lightning detectors)

A device that provides an alarm to inform its user(s) that lightning has occurred nearby. Specific devices are available for a variety of applications.


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., September 1918, →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.


CG lightning

Abbreviation of "cloud to ground lightning".

Cloud-to-ground lightning; lightning which connects (attaches) to the ground; lightning which results in the discharge of electricity between a cloud and the ground.


heather

en-noun

heather (countable and uncountable, plural heathers)

heathers (plural)
hadder (alternative)
hether (alternative)
hather (alternative)

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

hadder (alternative)
hether (alternative)
hather (alternative)

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


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.


honeydew

en-noun

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.


hot pink

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

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

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incarnadine

en-verb

incarnadine (third-person singular simple present incarnadines, present participle incarnadining, simple past and past participle incarnadined)

incarnadines (present singular third-person)
incarnadining (participle present)
incarnadined (participle past)
incarnadined (past)

The adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnatino (“carnation; flesh colour”), from incarnato (“embodied, incarnate”) + -ino (suffix forming adjectives denoting composition, colour, or other qualities). Incarnato is derived from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarnātus (“having been made incarnate”), the perfect passive participle of incarnō (“to become or make incarnate; to make into flesh”), from in- (suffix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + Latin carō (“flesh, meat; body”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.
Adjective senses 2 and 3 (“of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; (figurative) bloostained, bloody”) and noun sense 2 (“blood-red colour of raw flesh”) are due to William Shakespeare’s use of the word as a verb in Macbeth (c. 1606): see the quotation below.

der

[T]he clouds, till that time thick in the sky, broke away from the upper heaven, and allowed the noonday sun to pour down through the lantern upon her, irradiating her with a warm light that was incarnadined by her pink doublet and hose, and reflected in upon her face.

1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the second (continued; Dare and Havill), pages 37–38:

(transitive, originally) To make flesh-coloured.


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.


lovat

en-noun

lovat (countable and uncountable, plural lovats)

lovat:


malachite

en-adj

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.


mazarine

en-noun

mazarine (countable and uncountable, plural mazarines)

Perhaps from the name either of Cardinal Mazarin or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, but the Oxford English Dictionary states that evidence is wanting and that it is not in French dictionaries.

mazarine:


mint cream

mint cream (countable and uncountable, plural mint creams)

mint cream:

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

A chocolate filled with peppermint fondant.


mint cream

Of a very faint green color, 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.


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.


Navajo white

Navajo white (countable and uncountable, plural Navajo whites)

Navajo white:

Navajo white (color corresponding to RGB code FFDEAD)


off-white

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

off-whites (plural)
off white (alternative)

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


sunlight

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:

Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.

2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars:

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

ضَوْء شَمْس

electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun

(figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.


sunlight

Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”)


Caca

(Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth.


seleno-

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seleno- + -centric → selenocentric


selenography

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


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.


Pompeian red

Of a red colour, tinted with orange, like that of the houses of Pompeii.


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.


pistachio green

en-noun

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.


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.


pewter

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.


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.


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.


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


saxe blue

saxe blue (countable and uncountable, plural saxe blues)

From French Saxe (“Saxony”) (from German), where a dye of this color originated.

saxe blue:

A light blue color, with a tint of grey.


saxe blue

Of a light blue color, with a tint of grey


seashell

seashells (plural)
sea shell (alternative)

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.


silver-grey

silver-greys (plural)
silver-gray (alternative)

silver-grey:


slate gray

slate gray (countable and uncountable, plural slate grays)

slate grays (plural)
slate grey (alternative)

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


sorrel

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)


spring green

en-noun

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.


stammel

The Violet’s purple, the sweet Rose’s stammell,

1611, “The Third Daie of the First Week”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes, London:

Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.


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.


tow-colored

Of a pale yellow colour, like that of flax.


Turkey red

en-noun

Turkey red (countable and uncountable, plural Turkey reds)

From the origin of the red dye in the Ottoman Empire ("Turkey").

(historical) A durable red dye originally obtained from madder and later prepared chemically.

Turkey red:

A vibrant shade of red similar to the dye.


Turkey red

en-adj

Turkey red (comparative more Turkey red, superlative most Turkey red)

more Turkey red (comparative)
most Turkey red (superlative)

Coloured Turkey red or (inexact) a similarly vibrant red.


Venetian red

Venetian red (comparative more Venetian red, superlative most Venetian red)

more Venetian red (comparative)
most Venetian red (superlative)


violet red

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


wheaten

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.


platinum blond

en-noun

platinum blond (countable and uncountable, plural platinum blonds)

platinum blonds (plural)
platinum blonde (alternative)


amaranthine

amaranthine (countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines)

amaranthines (plural)
amarantine (alternative)

/ˌæm.əˈɹæn.θɪn/

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

der

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

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


amaranthine

en-adj

amaranthine (comparative more amaranthine, superlative most amaranthine)

more amaranthine (comparative)
most amaranthine (superlative)
amarantine (alternative)

/ˌæm.əˈɹæn.θɪn/

[…] The angelick blast
Filled all the regions: from their blisful bowers
Of amarantine shade, fountain or spring,
By the waters of life, where’er they sat
In fellowships of joy, the sons of light
Hasted, resorting to the summons high

1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Ah! is Thy love indeed
A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed,
Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?

1893, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven:

“Fuchsia,” said the Doctor, “come along this evening and I’ll give you a tonic which you must make her take every day. By all that’s amaranthine you really must. […]”

1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

Relating to the mythical amaranth flower that never fades.

Relating to, or having the form of plants of the genus Amaranthus.


royal purple

en-noun

royal purple (countable and uncountable, plural royal purples)

royal purple:


royal purple

Of a deep vibrant reddish purple colour.


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.


pillar-box red

Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.


chrome red

en-noun

chrome red (countable and uncountable, plural chrome reds)


Congo red

Congo red (countable and uncountable, plural Congo reds)

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


gules

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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.


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.


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.


Chinese red

Of a vivid red colour tinted with orange.


Indian red

1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

Indian-red (alternative)
India red (alternative)

Having the colour of Indian red pigment.


Lincoln green

From Lincoln, England, where the cloth of this colour was originally produced.

Lincoln green:


Lincoln green

Lincoln green (comparative more Lincoln green, superlative most Lincoln green)

more Lincoln green (comparative)
most Lincoln green (superlative)


Luna

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Roxane.

(Roman mythology) The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.

Luna that ne'er shines by day.

1868, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Edward Arber, The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, Etc, page 129:

He has but little prudence, no apprehension of consequences, and none of that melancholy which in tempraments of Luna and Venus is generally felt, and from which he is saved by the combination of Mars and Mercury.

1896, The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical, page 22:

The different visible shapes of Luna are called her phases.

1909, Govind H. Keskar, Combined Introductory Astrology, page 14:

Lagrange point L1 is the perfect location for humanity's next major space station, the natural gateway to the moon. This one-of-a-kind point in space is located on the direct line between Earth and Luna about 200,000 miles from Earth, or conversely, a mere 39,000 miles above the geometric center of Luna's nearside.

2011, Charles Lee Lesher, Aldrin Station - Rise of Luna:

(chiefly science fiction or poetic) The name of Earth's moon; Moon.

- - - and it so happened, that in one of old Bryan's daughters named Luna, or more familiarly Loony, he perceived, or thought he perceived, some imaginary similarity in form and air to the lovely apparition.

1837, James Hogg, “The Mysterious Bride”, in Talks and Sketches: The Shepherd's Calendar, Blackie & Son, page 343:

A few seconds later, Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head.

2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:


Luna

4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales.

1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:

George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown.

1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry … Second Edition:

8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony.

1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium … vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:

The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:

(heraldry, rare) Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.


Mars

From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors.

4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol. [...] 12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England.

George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown. All within the Garter. Above the whole a Helmet suitable to his Majesty's Royal Jurisdiction, upon the same a rich Mantle of Cloth of Gold, doubled Ermine, a[…]

8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony. Note, these Ensigns (which are the paternal Coat of his Majesty King George) I have added as an Example, to shew the Form of what foreign Heralds term Tierce in Mantle, ente en Pointe, &c. […]

ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

(heraldry, rare) Gules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune [edit]


Moon

Moon (canonical)
the Moon (canonical)
moon (alternative)
moone (alternative)

From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

inh

The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.


Moon

* A variant of Mohan, from Irish.
* A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce.
* Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname.
* A variant of Mun, from Korean.
* A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 /万 (Wàn), and 滿 /满 (Mǎn).
* Possibly from Cantonese 滿 /满 (mun⁵, “full; complete”).

Allegheny County
Allegheny County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.

An unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.


Oxford blue

en-noun

Oxford blue (usually uncountable, plural Oxford blues)

Oxford blue:


Prussian blue

Prussian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Prussian blues)

The pigment was discovered circa 1700 in the German state of Prussia by a paint-maker named Diesbach.

(inorganic chemistry) An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide), used in painting and dyeing, and as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning.

Prussian blue:

A moderate to rich blue colour, tinted with deep greenish blue.


Prussian blue

en-adj

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

more Prussian blue (comparative)
most Prussian blue (superlative)

Of a rich blue colour, tinted with green.


Ra

Transcription of Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “the sun; Ra”).

(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the Sun.


Sol

Sol (named after the solar eclipse on the day of his birth) was born in March 2015 with an undetected clot in his upper left arm.

2017 March 1, Marc Waddington, “How dad’s bionic arm invention is changing son’s life & prosthetics”, in Daily Post, № 51,073, page 6/2:


Sol

4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.

George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg.

8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh;

(heraldry, rare) Or (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.


Sun

the Sun (canonical)
sonne (alternative)
sunne (alternative)
sun (alternative)

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.

inh

The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.


Tyrian purple

en-noun

Tyrian purple (countable and uncountable, plural Tyrian purples)

A deep purple dyestuff obtained from the bodies of mollusks of certain species of the family Muricidae, originally certain of those of the eastern Mediterranean, now also other species from elsewhere.

Tyrian purple:

A deep purple colour, tinted with red, like that of the dye.


Tyrian purple

Of a deep purple colour, tinted with red, like that of the dye.


Vandyke brown

Vandyke brown (countable and uncountable, plural Vandyke browns)

This colour was named for Sir Anthony Van Dyck, a Flemish painter.

Vandyke brown:

A medium brown colour, originally a pigment made from peat or soil.


champagne

champagne (countable and uncountable, plural champagnes)

champagnes (plural)
Champagne (alternative)

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.

cava

Spanish sparkling white wine made with the méthode champenoise

crémant

French sparkling wine that isn't from the Champagne region

prosecco

Italian sparkling white wine made by dual fermentation method in vats

spumante

Italian sparkling wine, sometimes made with the méthode champenoise

(countable, uncountable, informal) Any sparkling white wine.

shampanjë

sparkling white wine produced in Champagne


backfire

en-verb

backfire (third-person singular simple present backfires, present participle backfiring, simple past and past participle backfired)

backfires (present singular third-person)
backfiring (participle present)
backfired (participle past)
backfired (past)

(firefighting) To set a back fire (small, controlled fire to limit spread of a larger fire).


backfire

(firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire


cherry red

Of a deep bright red colour, like that of a cherry.


glaucous

en-adj

glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)

more glaucous (comparative)
most glaucous (superlative)

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.

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glaucous:

I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]

[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.

Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.

1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.

сивозеленикав

of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge

glauque (typically greener, whereas English glaucous is bluer)


cool grey

cool greys (plural)
cool gray (alternative)

cool grey:


mocha

en-noun

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

mocha:

A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.

(historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.


mocha

Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.


bice blue

en-adj

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

more bice blue (comparative)
most bice blue (superlative)

Of a deep blue colour, like that of the sky on a clear day.


bice green

bice green (comparative more bice green, superlative most bice green)

more bice green (comparative)
most bice green (superlative)

Of a bright green colour, like that of a leaf.


bottle green

en-noun

bottle green (countable and uncountable, plural bottle greens)

bottle green:

He stopped to look at a shop selling ladies' wear, and stared for a long time at a bottle-green suit of corduroy slacks.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

A dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.


bottle green

en-adj

bottle green (comparative more bottle green, superlative most bottle green)

more bottle green (comparative)
most bottle green (superlative)

Of a dark green colour, like that of some wine bottles.


baby blue

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

more baby blue (comparative)
most baby blue (superlative)

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coal black

From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).

coal black:

A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.


ecru

en-noun

ecru (countable and uncountable, plural ecrus)

ecru:

We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.

2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales), →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:


ecru

Miriam fell in love with a tulle-and-lace gown, but Judy returned to the first one they'd looked at, an ecru satin bridal gown...

2005, Binnie Kirshenbaum, An Almost Perfect Moment:


duck-egg blue

Of a pale greenish blue colour, like that of some duck eggs.


cornflower blue

Of a bright blue color, with a tint of purple


emerald green

Of a rich green colour, like that of an emerald.


emerald green

emerald green:

A rich green colour, like that of an emerald.

A durable vivid green pigment made from copper arsenate.


grass-green

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

From Middle English grasgrene, from Old English græsgrēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grasagrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grasagrōniz, equivalent to grass + green.

grass-green:

A bright green color, like that of grass.


grass-green

Of a bright green color, like that of grass.


ice blue

en-adj

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

more ice blue (comparative)
most ice blue (superlative)


iron gray

iron grays (plural)
iron grey (alternative)

iron gray:

A dark grey colour, with a tint of green, like iron freshly cut or broken.


iron gray

Of a dark grey colour, with a tint of green.


Kendal green

en-noun

Kendal green (countable and uncountable, plural Kendal greens)

How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green?

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Kendal green:

A light greyish-green colour, like that of the cloth.


lapis lazuli

lapis lazuli (countable and uncountable, plural lapides lazuli or lapis lazulis)

lapides lazuli (plural)
lapis lazulis (plural)

From Middle English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) + lazulī, genitive singular of lazulum (“lapis lazuli, azure, the sky”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli, azure”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.

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He saw the amber silk curtains wave to and fro: the middle window was open; in it stood a pillar of lapis lazuli, which supported an alabaster figure, Canova's Dansatrice.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:

(mineralogy) A deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine.


lapis lazuli

I cannot convey to you the sheer and surreal scale of everything: the towering ship, the ropes, the ties, the anchor, the pier, the vast lapis lazuli dome of the sky.

Of a deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.


magnolia

en-noun

magnolia (countable and uncountable, plural magnolias)

Borrowed from translingual Magnolia, from French Magnol + -ia. Named after French botanist Pierre Magnol (1638–1715). The surname is a form of the male given name Magne, from Latin magnus.

There are clusters of magnolias that are so tall and green and glossy, they are impossible to climb, and the air around them always smells like peaches.

2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 158:

(countable) A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves.

magnolia:

(countable, uncountable) A creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.


magnolia

Of a creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.


petrol blue

(British) Of a greyish blue colour, tinted with green.


robin's-egg blue

Associate Justice and Mrs. Owen J. Roberts arrived shortly before the performance started. Mrs. Roberts wore a robins’ egg blue chiffon frock.

1942 March 4, Carolyn Bell, “Colorful Throng Attends ‘Blackout’ Symphony Concert”, in The Washington Post, number 24,002, page 14:

Of a greenish blue colour, like that of an American robin's egg.


slate black

slate black:


old gold

old gold (countable and uncountable, plural old golds)

old gold:


old gold

The rose and purple notes in the rugs were toned down by hanging a panel of printed linen in the wall space between the book shelves, bound with an old gold edge of damask.

1919, Good Furniture, volume 13, page 100:


manila

a manila envelope

Made of manila paper or material like it.

manila:

Yellow-brown; colored like manila paper.


manila

manila (usually uncountable, plural manilas)

Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper.

A kind of cheroot manufactured in Manila.


quercitron

quercitron (countable and uncountable, plural quercitrons)

The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America.


flaming

en-adj

flaming (comparative more flaming, superlative most flaming)

more flaming (comparative)
most flaming (superlative)

The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.

On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top.

2011, Stephanie Owen Reeder, Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea, page 76:


abram

abram (comparative more abram, superlative most abram)

more abram (comparative)
most abram (superlative)

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vinaceous

Borrowed from Late Latin vinaceus, from Latin vinum.

vinaceous:

A specific color among several that represent red wine.


vinous

vinous (comparative more vinous, superlative most vinous)

more vinous (comparative)
most vinous (superlative)

From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).

روحاني

pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine

The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast.

1854, Charles Dickens, “Husband and Wife”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, book the first (Sowing), pages 127–128:

en:of wine or like wine
en:involving the use of wine

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

Near-synonyms: winelike, wine-dark, wine-blue

[...] François' quick eye detected the presence of some very small birds moving among the blossoms. They were at once pronounced to be humming-birds, and of that species known as the "ruby-throats" (Trochilus rolubris), so called, because a flake of a beautiful vinous colour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby.

1853, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “The Shrike and the Humming-birds”, in The Young Voyageurs, or The Boy Hunters in the North, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Co., →OCLC, page 268:

Day was breaking, and the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with a vinous colour.

1904, Gustave Flaubert, “Tanith”, in Salammbô: A Romance of Ancient Carthage […], volume III, Chicago, Ill.: Simon P. Magee, →OCLC, page 99:

en:of wine or like wine
en:of the colour of red wine


viridian

en-noun

viridian (countable and uncountable, plural viridians)

From Latin viridis, from the verb vireō (“be verdant, sprout”).

It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water.

1890, Arthur Herbert Church, chapter 16, in The Chemistry of Paints and Painting, 3rd edition, London: Seeley & Co., published 1901, page 195:

Then Miss Sloviak emerged from the ladies' room, hair reestablished, cheeks rouged, eyelids freshly painted a soft viridian, smelling of what I recognised as Cristalle, the fragrance worn both by my wife, Emily, and also by my lover, Sara Gaskell.

1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.16

chromium sesquioxide
chromium sesquioxide

A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.

viridian:


viridian

en-adj

viridian (comparative more viridian, superlative most viridian)

more viridian (comparative)
most viridian (superlative)

spring sweeps the wood’s cathedral nave
with the green fury of a wave,
till oak and elm and beech and ash
in one viridian comber crash,
while at their feet red vetches shine,
sharp, and cold, and coralline.

1928, Humbert Wolfe, “Spring”, in This Blind Rose, London: Victor Gollancz, page 47:

We walked out on to a balcony, looking down on the bright green fields, the grey-blue river lined with viridian poplars, and the red earth paths where the peasants were driving their animals […]

1937, Robert Byron, “Bamian”, in The Road to Oxiana:


Wedgwood blue

Named for Josiah Wedgwood, who used this colour for pottery.


playpipe

A rigid extension to a fire hose that provides a gripping surface for fire fighting personnel. Typically a pipe with handles that attaches to the end of a fire hose and has a nozzle attached to it.


school bus yellow

school bus yellow:

An orange-yellow color, used in school buses in Canada and the United States.


school bus yellow

Of an orange-yellow color, used in school buses in Canada and the United States.

Skoolbusgeel

high-visibility yellow for automotive or traffic use


LAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of large airtanker (“a class of waterbomber”).


subsolar

subsolar (comparative more subsolar, superlative most subsolar)

more subsolar (comparative)
most subsolar (superlative)
sub-solar (alternative)


nacarat

en-noun

nacarat (countable and uncountable, plural nacarats)

Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre.


daylight

en-noun

daylight (countable and uncountable, plural daylights)

daylights (plural)
day-light (alternative)

From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).

create daylight between oneself and someone

put daylight between oneself and someone

The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source.

(countable, photometry) The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.

päivänvalo

photometry: natural daylight's intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum

We should get home while it's still daylight.

The period of time between sunrise and sunset.

dia

All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.

He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.

Finally, after weeks of work on the project, they could see daylight.


flashing

flashing (countable and uncountable, plural flashings)

From flash + -ing.
* (weatherproofing): From original flashing material of copper or aluminum that reflects flashes of sunlight.

The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.

The blinking of a light source, such as a light bulb or computer's cursor.


blue moon

blue moon (countable and uncountable, plural blue moons)

(countable) An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely:

The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.

The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).

(countable, idiomatic, by extension) A long time.

(uncountable) A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.


blister

blister (countable and uncountable, plural blisters)

→ Polish: blister

From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).

Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.

1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu:

A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.


blister

en-verb

blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)

blisters (present singular third-person)
blistering (participle present)
blistered (participle past)
blistered (past)

a chemical agent that blisters the skin

Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

(cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.

(intransitive) To break out in blisters.


bilious

en-adj

bilious (comparative more bilious, superlative most bilious)

more bilious (comparative)
most bilious (superlative)

From French bilieux, from Latin bīliōsus (“full of bile”), from bīlis (“bile”) + -ōsus (“full of”).

Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.

Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
In emulation of her vestal whiteness.

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

His complexion was pale, not of that deadly pallor which is a kind of neutral beauty, but of a bilious, yellow hue; his colorless hair was short and scarcely extended beyond the circle formed by the hat around his head, and his light blue eyes seemed destitute of any expression.

1845, Alexandre Dumas, chapter 31, in Twenty Years After:

The business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.

1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Main Street:

A beautiful girl once told me of a recurring nightmare in which she lay in the center of a large dark room and felt her face expand until it filled the whole room, becoming a formless mass while her eyes ran in bilious jelly up the chimney.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, prologue:

Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. You would not think it to look at him, but he is bilious—Mr. Cole is very bilious.

1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 7:

(pathology) Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.

sappitautinen

suffering from real or supposed liver disorder

The glorified spirit of a great statesman and philosopher dawdling, like a bilious old Nabob at a watering-place, over quarterly reviews and novels—dropping in to pay long calls—making excursions in search of the picturesque!

1830 January 7, Thomas Macaulay, “[Review of] Southey's Colloquies on Society”, in The Edinburgh Review, page 536:

The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows, pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked in La Samaritaine […]

Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.


daybreak

en-noun

daybreak (countable and uncountable, plural daybreaks)

Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.

1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:


curfew

curfews (plural)
cover-few (alternative)

From Middle English curfu, from Old French cuevre-fu (French couvre-feu), from the imperative of covrir (“to cover”) + fu (“fire”). Compare kerchief.

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “Hurricane Sandy”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-31:

Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.

夜間外出禁止令

やかんがいしゅつきんしれい

(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.

вече́рен час

historical regulation requiring fire to be covered/extinguished


fight fires

en-verb

fight fires (third-person singular simple present fights fires, present participle fighting fires, simple past and past participle fought fires)

fights fires (present singular third-person)
fighting fires (participle present)
fought fires (participle past)
fought fires (past)

I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project.

(idiomatic) To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work.


HMI

(technology) Initialism of human-machine interface.


mousy

en-adj

mousy (comparative mousier, superlative mousiest)

mousier (comparative)
mousiest (superlative)
mousey (alternative)

From mouse + -y (forms adjectives from nouns).


visible light

electromagnetic spectrum
electromagnetic spectrum

(physics) The part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between infrared and ultraviolet, that is visible to the human eye.


optical spectrum

en-noun

optical spectrum (plural optical spectrums or optical spectra)

optical spectrums (plural)
optical spectra (plural)

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(astronomy, physics) The range of frequencies of visible light.


rollover

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

rollovers (plural)
roll-over (alternative)

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“They blink if I step on the brake at the same time, and anybody who don't step on his brakes when he's makin^([sic]) a turn is lookin^([sic]) to do a rollover.”

1980, Stephen King, Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game:

(automotive) A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.

kierähdysonnettomuus

automotive: a road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns

Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos.

2007, Ray Foley, Heather Dismore, Running a Bar for Dummies, page 273:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, chiefly web design) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.

osoitettaessa muuttuva elementti

computing: a graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it

(firefighting) The sudden ignition of flammable gases (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.

palokaasujen syttyminen

firefighting: the sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space

(British) In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.

siirtyminen ensi kierrokselle

Britain: in the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week

One thing I hate about some pinball games is that they don't let you know your current objective, what happens when you hit specific targets or rollovers, or what targets you should be aiming for right now.

2010, Bob LeVitus, Incredible iPhone Apps For Dummies, page 78:

(pinball) A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it.

rollover

pinball: a target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it


AT

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

(firefighting, aviation) Abbreviation of air tanker.


solar flare

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(astronomy) A violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere.


arson

en-verb

arson (third-person singular simple present arsons, present participle arsoning, simple past and past participle arsoned)

arsons (present singular third-person)
arsoning (participle present)
arsoned (participle past)
arsoned (past)

From Anglo-Norman and Old French arson, from the verb ardoir, from Latin ardeō (“to burn”). Compare ardent.

(transitive, chiefly India) To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner.


moonquake

moonquakes (plural)
moon-quake (alternative)

From moon + quake, after the pattern of earthquake.

A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake.


refract

refract (third-person singular simple present refracts, present participle refracting, simple past and past participle refracted)

refracts (present singular third-person)
refracting (participle present)
refracted (participle past)
refracted (past)

From Latin refrāctum, neuter form of refrāctus, the past participle of refringō, itself from re- (“again”) + frangō (“I break”).

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation

(transitive, physics) Of a medium, substance, object, etc.: to deflect the course of (light rays), esp. when they enter the medium, etc., at an oblique angle; to cause refraction of (light, other electromagnetic radiation, or sound or other wave phenomena).

(transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.


lighting

en-noun

lighting (countable and uncountable, plural lightings)

The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.

1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.

We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense, page 142:

The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.