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  2. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    The line of purples circled on the CIE chromaticity diagram. The bottom left of the curved edge is violet. Points near and along the circled edge are purple. The word violet as a color name derives from the Middle English and Old French violete, in turn from the Latin viola, the name of the violet flower.

  3. Puce - Wikipedia

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    Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color". Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of Louis XVI, and was said to be a favorite color of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.

  4. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

  5. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, [4] or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side.

  6. Purple - Wikipedia

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    CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (30, 68, 308°) Source. HTML color names. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments.

  7. Mauve - Wikipedia

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    Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859.

  8. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    Dark reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Japanese violet or Sumire is shown at right. This is the color called "violet" in the traditional Japanese colors group, a group of colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimono.

  9. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    Tyrian purple. Fabrics dyed in the current era from different species of sea snail. The colours in this photograph may not represent them precisely. Tyrian purple ( Ancient Greek: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura ), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish- purple natural dye.

  10. Manganese violet - Wikipedia

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    Manganese violet is a fine, vibrant purple pigment that is synthetically generated. It exhibits exceptional permanence and high lightfastness. The Waitress was created by Édouard Manet in 1879. Some artists historically avoided manganese violet because of they found its color to be dull.

  11. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    Deep reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple ( hue rendering ), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors.