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In the modern era, synthetic purple dyes became easier to obtain, and flags with the color purple began being used more commonly. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic established a tricolor flag consisting of red, yellow and purple stripes as its national flag , seeing use in Spain until 1939 and by the Spanish Republican government in exile ...
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 carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though heirloom variants including purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, [2] [3] all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.
The color royal purple is a tone of purple that is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple. The first recorded use of royal purple as a color name in English was in 1661. [11] In 1990, royal purple was formulated as one of the Crayola crayon colors.
The Chinese word for 'color' is yánsè (顏色). In Literary Chinese, the character 色 more literally corresponds to 'color in the face' or 'emotion'. It was generally used alone and often implied sexual desire or desirability. During the Tang dynasty (618–907), the word yánsè came to mean 'all color'.
The Munsell color wheel consisted of five "principal hues" (red, yellow, green, blue, and purple), and five "intermediate hues" (yellow red, green yellow, blue green, blue purple, and red purple). Each color was available in either "maximum chroma" or with "middle value and middle chroma."
As a result of the "Verdunkelung", a black-out measure for aerial defense from 1935, cobalt blue was regulated to replace the red color used until 1938 in German emergency vehicle lights. [1] [2] Due to the scattering properties of the blue color, it is only visible to lower altitudes and is therefore less easily spotted by enemy airplanes.
The Color Purple is a 1982 novel by Alice Walker. The Color Purple may also refer to: The Color Purple, a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel; The Color Purple, a 2005 musical based on the novel; The Color Purple, a film adaptation of the 2005 musical