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  2. 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 ...

  3. Bindi (decoration) - Wikipedia

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    Hindu woman in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh wearing a bindi. A bindi (Hindi: बिंदी, from Sanskrit बिन्दु bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") known as pottu (Tamil: பொட்டு) and teep (Bengali: টিপ) is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the center of the forehead, originally by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists from the Indian ...

  4. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple shown above as purple (HTML/CSS color). This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors . This color can be called X11 purple . Veronica prostrata, for which the color veronica is named.

  5. Hue - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet ," [1] within certain theories of color vision .

  6. Designation of workers by collar color - Wikipedia

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    A waitress. A pink-collar worker is also a member of the working class who performs in the service industry. They work in positions such as waiters, retail clerks, salespersons, certain unlicensed assistive personnel, and many other positions involving relations with people. The term was coined in the late 1970s as a phrase to describe jobs ...

  7. White - Wikipedia

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    It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide.

  8. Kautuka - Wikipedia

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    A kautuka is a red-yellow coloured ritual protection thread, sometimes with knots, found on the Indian subcontinent. It is sometimes called a kalava, mauli, moui, raksasutra, [1] pratisara (in North India), kaapu, kayiru, charandu or rakshadhara (in South India). [2] [3] [4] A kautuka is a woven thread, cord or ribbon, states the Indologist Jan ...

  9. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    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 same color may have very different associations within ...

  10. Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    Rainbow. A colorful rainbow and ring-billed gull. A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. [1] The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. [2]

  11. Soil color - Wikipedia

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    Gray or blue. Soil in anaerobic, saturated environments may appear gray or blue in color due to the redox reduction and/or depletion of iron. In an anaerobic soils, microbes reduce iron from the ferric (Fe 3+) to the ferrous (Fe 2+) form. Manganese may also be reduced from the manganic (Mn 4+) to the manganous (Mn 2+) form, though iron ...