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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.
Originally he used only five colors, but later he added orange and indigo to match the number of musical notes in the major scale. [2] [3] The Munsell color system, the first formal color notation system (1905), names only five "principal hues": red, yellow, green, blue, and purple. [4]
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.
Eggplant is a dark purple [1] or brownish-purple [2] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. [3] Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine [2] (the French, German and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of eggplant as a color name in English was in 1915. [4]
Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet.It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name.The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender ...
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Maroon (US/UK / m ə ˈ r uː n / mə-ROON, [2] Australia / m ə ˈ r oʊ n / mə-ROHN [3]) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. [4] " Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that shown on the right, or a reddish purple, which is a close representation of the average color of the plum fruit. As a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel, plum is an equal mix of the tertiary colors russet and slate. [2] [3] The first recorded use of plum as a color name in ...