Obscure Color Words

• albicant: whitish; becoming white
• amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
• aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour
• azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
• celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery
• cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
• chartreuse: yellow-green colour
• cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
• citrine: dark greenish-yellow
• eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
• erythraean: reddish colour
• flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
• greige: of a grey-beige colour
• haematic: blood coloured
• heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
• hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
• isabelline: greyish yellow
• jacinthe: orange colour
• kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
• lovat: grey-green; blue-green
• madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
• mauve: light bluish purple
• mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour
• russet: reddish brown
• sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
• saffron: orange-yellow
• sarcoline: flesh-coloured
• smaragdine: emerald green
• tilleul: pale yellowish-green
• titian: red-gold, reddish brown
• vermilion: bright red
• virid: green
• viridian: chrome green
• xanthic: yellow
• zinnober: chrome green
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