SOME OLD COLOR NAMES AND SHADES

Amaranth – a color close to purple,
purple. From the name of the plant amaranth, velvet, velvet, cockscomb (shirets – red grass). Or the color of rosewood wood, lilac pink, light purple.

Adelaide is a shade of lilac. According to other sources,
– Navy blue. In the 40-50s of the XIX century. used in the press: found in Turgenev (“the color of adelaide, or, as we say, odelloid”) and Dostoevsky.

Hellfire is a purple shade of red. Or pearl red.

Beryl – by the name of beryl, a transparent greenish-blue stone.

Prussian blue is an artistic term. Until its invention in 1704, the world did not know bright blue colors. Everything looked dull, pale – in general, not azure at all. With the invention of this paint, aesthetes allowed themselves blue walls and furniture.

Blange, or planchevy (from fr. blanc – white) – a creamy shade of white. Dahl’s – telny, i.e. flesh color.

Brunswick Greens is a complex blue-green hue, turquoise green.

Bristol blue is bright blue.

Victorian red is an English classic. This color became popular not under Queen Victoria, but much earlier, under Elizabeth, who preferred dark lipstick and blush that contrasted with the pale complexion of her face.

Wine – yellowish red.

Toad in love – greenish-gray.

Waxed – the color of wax, from yellow-gray to amber-yellow.

The raven eye is black. It was recommended for fashionable tailcoats. It was possible to achieve this shade using only high-quality wool.

Havana – gray with a hint of brown.

Pea – gray or dirty yellow.

Heliotrope – the color of a heliotrope (stone), dark green with spots of red or yellow. Or like a heliotrope flower, grayish purple.

Gummigut is a bright yellow paint. It was made on the basis of the juice of the cambodia guta plant from the island of Ceylon. This color was loved, in particular, by the English artist Reynolds. In other countries gummigut is called “dragon blood”.

Edward’s children are a shade of pink.

Wild – grey.

Gendarme – a shade of blue. The word appeared at the end of the 19th century due to the color of the gendarme uniform.
Giraffe – yellow-brown.

Zhonkilevy – the color of narcissus.

Zekry – dark, light blue, gray.

Frightened mouse – a shade of gray.

Judas tree – bright pink.

KashU – blue, or bright red, or tobacco.

Cubic (indigo) – blue, from the name of the cube plant.

Partridge eyes – light red.

Lani (from the name of the animal) – yellowish brown.

Frogs in a swoon – light grey-green.

Magenta – bright red.

Marengo – black and gray. This was the color of the trousers of Napoleon, who, with his army in 1800, defeated the Austrian troops in the Italian town of Marengo.

Marquises Pompadour – a shade of pink.

Bear (aka bear’s ear) – a dark chestnut shade of brown.

Moscow fire – similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.

Nakaratovy – a shade of red, “hot”.

Navarino flame with smoke (or smoke with flame) is a fashionable cloth color that appeared after the victory of the Russians over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827.

Fawn – a pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from the French. paille – “straw”.

Parisian mud – dirty brown. Appeared after the public got acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sebastian Mercier “Pictures of Paris”.

Parnassian rose – a shade of pink with a purple tint.

A spider plotting a crime is a dark shade of grey.

Floating – light yellow.

Prunel – a shade of black, the color of a ripe mulberry.

Gray – the color of a dove, after just blue.

Silk – blue, cornflower blue.

Blue-scarlet – dark purple.

Blue is a church word meaning “all blue”.

Blue – with a blue tint.

Smury – a brown shade of gray, dirty gray.

Nightingale – gray. The nightingale is named after this color.

Solferino – bright red. Named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French War.

Somo – pinkish yellow. Found in War and Peace.

Tango – orange with a brown tint.

Tausinny – blue, from the word “peacock”.

Pistachio – dirty green.

Mills – the color of crushed strawberries.

Scarlet – bright red.

Schmalt – blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).

Yakhontovy – red, purple or dark blue.