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  2. 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.

  3. Constantine VII - Wikipedia

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    Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ( Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Πορφυρογέννητος, Kōnstantinos Porphyrogennētos; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the ...

  4. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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    Tetragrammatic cross Relief with the tetragrammatic cross as imperial arms, in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. During the Palaiologan period, the insigne of the reigning dynasty, and the closest thing to a Byzantine "national flag", according to Soloviev, was the so-called "tetragrammatic cross", a gold or silver cross with four letters beta "Β" (often interpreted as firesteels) of the ...

  5. Magenta - Wikipedia

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    On the RGB color wheel, magenta is the color between rose and violet, and halfway between red and blue . This color is called magenta in X11 and fuchsia in HTML. In the RGB color model, it is created by combining equal intensities of red and blue light. The two web colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color.

  6. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Fuchsia (color) - Wikipedia

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    Fuchsia (color) Fuchsia ( / ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs . The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called ...

  8. 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.

  9. The Color Purple (2023 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Color Purple is a 2023 American musical period drama film directed by Blitz Bazawule. Marcus Gardley 's screenplay is based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg and ...