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In the modern era, synthetic purple dyes became easier to obtain, and flags with the colour purple began being used more commonly. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic established a tricolour 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 ...
A periwinkle flower. Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb ( Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. [2] The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the ...