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  2. 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.

  3. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    At right is displayed the color lavender. This color may also be called lavender (floral) or floral lavender to distinguish it from the web color lavender. It is the color of the central part of the lavender flower. The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705. Since the color lavender has a hue code of 275 ...

  4. Purple - Wikipedia

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    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. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  5. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2]

  6. Periwinkle (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the Munsell color system, or a "pastel purple-blue". The color can represent serenity, calmness, winter, and ice.

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  7. Lavandula - Wikipedia

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    Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of mainland Eurasia, with an affinity for maritime breezes.

  8. Bisexual flag - Wikipedia

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    The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace and 1980s and 1990s associations of lavender with queerness. Page described the meaning of the pink, purple, and blue colors: The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian).

  9. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different associations within ...

  10. 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.

  11. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

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    Source. Maerz and Paul [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Heliotrope is a pink - purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower . The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. [2]