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  2. Burgundy (color) - Wikipedia

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    Burgundy. Burgundy is a dark red-purplish color. [4] [5] The color burgundy takes its name from the Burgundy wine in France. When referring to the color, "burgundy" is not usually capitalized. [6] The color burgundy is similar to Bordeaux ( Web color code #4C1C24), Merlot (#73343A), Berry (#A01641), and Redberry (#701f28).

  3. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3] : 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of melanin in ...

  4. The Color Purple - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content ...

  5. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    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, it may be regarded as a light tone of ...

  6. Lavender Scare - Wikipedia

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    The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign which is known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare . [1]

  7. The Color Purple (1985 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes.It is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.

  8. Iris (color) - Wikipedia

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    Iris (color) The iris genus contains 260–300 species of flower, many of them of blue and purple shades. Iris is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet. However, in certain applications, it has been applied to an even wider array of colors, including pale blue, mauve, pink, and even yellow (the ...

  9. Lavender (chicken plumage) - Wikipedia

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    Lavender or self-blue refers to a plumage color pattern in the chicken ( Gallus gallus domesticus) characterized by a uniform, pale bluish grey color across all feathers. The distinctive color is caused by the action of an autosomal recessive gene, commonly designated as " lav ", which reduces the expression of eumelanin and phaeomelanin so ...