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Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color". [1]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.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.
Even among many modern speakers within the English-speaking world there is confusion about the terms purple and violet. [2] The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom.
The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705. [5]Originally, the name lavender only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book A Dictionary of Color [6] identified three major shades of lavender—[floral] lavender, lavender gray, and lavender blue, and in addition a fourth shade of lavender called old lavender (a darker lavender gray) (all four of these shades ...
Mallow wildflower. Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; [2] / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color [3] [4] 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.
In heraldry, purpure (/ ˈ p ɜːr p j ʊər /) is a tincture, equivalent to the colour purple, and is one of the five main or most usually used colours (as opposed to metals).It may be portrayed in engravings by a series of parallel lines at a 45-degree angle running from upper right to lower left from the point of view of an observer, or else indicated by the abbreviation purp.
The Color Purple: Music From the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name released in November 1986 by Qwest Records.It consists of an original score composed by Quincy Jones and original songs performed by various artists.
Eggplant is a dark purple [15] or purplish brown, [16] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplant. [17] Another name for the color "eggplant" is aubergine [16] (the French and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of "eggplant" as a color name in English was in 1915. [18] Eggplants, or aubergines