Obscure Color Words albicant: whitish; becoming white amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour aubergine: eggplant;

nt; 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; signaling 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