COLOUR TERMS

Word aeneous albicant albugineous amaranthine argent atrous aubergine aurulent azuline azure badious beige brunneous burnet caesious cardinal castaneous castory celadon celeste cerulean cesious chartreuse chlorochrous chrysochloro us cinerious cinnabar citreous citrine claret coccineous columbine coquelicot corbeau cramoisy cretaceous Definition shining bronze colour whitish; becoming white like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour the heraldic colour silver or white jet black eggplant; a dark purple colour gold-coloured blue light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue chestnut-coloured light creamy white-brown dark brown dark brown; dark woollen cloth bluish or greyish green deep scarlet red colour chestnut-coloured brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts pale green; pale green glazed pottery sky blue sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green bluish-grey yellow-green colour green-coloured greenish-gold ashen; ash-grey red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour lemon-coloured; lemony dark greenish-yellow dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine bright red of or like a dove; dove-coloured brilliant red; poppy red blackish green crimson of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour

croceate cyaneous eau-de-nil eburnean erythraean ferruginous filemot flammeous flavescent fuliginous fulvous fuscous gamboge glaucous goldenrod greige gridelin griseous haematic

saffron-coloured sky blue pale green colour of or like ivory; ivory-coloured reddish colour of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron dead-leaf colour; dull brown flame-coloured yellowish or turning yellow sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot dull yellow; tawny brown; tawny; dingy reddish-yellow colour sea-green; greyish-blue dark golden yellow of a grey-beige colour violet-grey pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled blood-coloured purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; heliotrope signalling mirror hoary pale silver-grey colour; grey with age hyacinthine of a blue or purple colour ianthine violet-coloured ibis large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour icterine yellowish or marked with yellow icteritious jaundiced; yellow incarnadine carnation-coloured; blood-red indigo deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown infuscate colour isabelline greyish yellow jacinthe orange colour jessamy yellow like a jasmine kermes brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects khaki light brown or tan lateritious brick-red leucochroic white or pale-coloured liard grey; dapple-grey lovat grey-green; blue-green lurid red-yellow; yellow-brown

luteolous luteous lutescent

yellowish golden-yellow yellowish red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or redmadder orange colour magenta reddish purple maroon brownish crimson mauve light bluish purple mazarine rich blue or reddish-blue colour melanic black; very dark melichrous having a honey-like colour meline canary-yellow miniaceous colour of reddish lead minium vermilion; red lead modena crimson morel dark-coloured horse; blackish colour nacarat bright orange-red nankeen buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton nigricant of a blackish colour nigrine black niveous snowy; white ochre yellowish or yellow-brown colour ochroleucous yellowish white olivaceous olive-coloured or heraldic colour gold or yellow pavonated peacock-blue periwinkle a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers perse dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour phoeniceous bright scarlet-red colour piceous like pitch; inflammable; reddish black plumbeous leaden; lead-coloured ponceau poppy red porphyrous purple porraceous leek-green prasinous leek-green colour primrose pale yellow puccoon blood-root; dark red colour puce brownish-purple; purplish-pink puniceous bright or purplish red purpure heraldic colour purple purpureal purple

pyrrhous rhodopsin rubiginous rubious rufous russet sable saffron sage sanguineous sapphire sarcoline sepia sinopia slate smalt smaragdine solferino sorrel spadiceous

reddish; ruddy visual purple rusty-coloured ruby red; rusty reddish or brownish-red reddish brown black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry orange-yellow grey-green colour bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red deep pure blue flesh-coloured fine brown preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour dull dark blue-grey deep blue emerald green purplish red reddish-brown; light chestnut chestnut-coloured coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red stammel colour stramineous strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured suede light beige sulphureous bright yellow tan tawny brown taupe brownish-grey tawny brownish-yellow teal greenish-blue terracotta reddish-brown testaceous of or having a hard shell; brick-red tilleul pale yellowish-green titian red-gold or reddish-brown topaz dark yellow turquoise blue-green ultramarine deep blue umber brownish red vermeil bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver vermilion bright red vinaceous wine-coloured vinous deep red; burgundy

violaceous violet virescent virid viridian vitellary wallflower watchet wheaten whey willowish xanthic zinnober

violet-coloured bluish purple becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour green chrome green bright yellow yellowish-red pale blue the golden colour of ripe wheat off-white of the colour of willow leaves yellow; yellowish chrome green