Paterson J. A Dictionary of Colour - A Lexicon of the Language of Colour (анг. яз.)
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c apple-green
A pale green; a colour used extensively in the making of Sèvres porcelain.
vb apricate; to
To expose to sunlight.
c apricot
The orange-yellow colour of the apricot fruit.
c Aqua
A light greenish-blue; a colour name adopted by Web page creators on the Internet
with hex code #OOFFF. See X11 Color Set. The colour aqua was one of the many
different colours in which lamp-posts in Notting Hill were painted for the 1999
Carnival.
c aqua blue
Light greenish blue.
c aquagreen
A light bluish green.
c aquamarine
Pale bluish green; sea-colour.
c Aquamarine
One of the 140 colours in the X11 Color Set. It has hex code 7FFFD4.
c aquarelle
A pale bluish-green. Also a technique of painting using thin transparent
watercolours.
c aran
Beige.
n arc light
A lamp providing high-intensity light generated by a flow of electricity either
between two rods through the air or between metal electrodes through gas; the
light itself.
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c arcadian green
A pale yellow-tinged green colour.
n archil
See orchil.
a ardent
Gleaming like a fire.
n argaman
An ancient purple dye made from the shellfish murex trunculus referred to in
Judges viii:26 and rediscovered in 1998.
a argatate
Silvery.
c argent
Like silver; silvery-white colour; in heraldry a silver or white colour.
pr argent- (L)
Silver.
c argental
Having a silver content.
a argenteous
Silvery.
a argentine
Silvery; made of silver.
c argil
The reddish-brown colour of clay – argil being potter’s clay.
pr argyr- (G)
Silver.
a argyranthous
Having silver-white flowers.
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n argyria, argyrism
Pigmentation of the skin caused by silver poisoning or taking medicine containing
silver.
n art masking fluid
A compound made from an easily removable rubber latex which can be applied
to a particular area when painting a watercolour to enable that area to retain its
background colour once the compound is removed.
c artichoke green
The yellowish-green colour of the artichoke.
n artificial colours
Colours produced by a chemical process and not found in nature, for example,
viridian. Artificial pigments first came into commercial production in 1856. See
pigment.
n artificial daylight or light
Light produced by man.
c æruca
A brilliant green made from acetate of copper.
n ærugo
Verdigris. Similar to æruca, but derived from carbonate of copper.
c arylide yellow
A light yellow mentioned in Louis de Berniere’s Captain Corellis Mandolin (also
known as Hansa yellow and cadmium yellow). Arylide is an aromatic compound.
Also diarylide yellow and azo.
n ASCII Purple
The new supercomputer to be built by IBM capable of carrying
out 100 thousand billion calculations each second. Its sister
‘Blue Gene/L’ will be even more powerful.
c ash
Whitish grey or brownish grey.
adjective a
adverb adv
a colour c
noun n
prefix pr
suffix su
verb vb
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c ash-blond(e)
As regards hair, a light blonde colour; someone having this colour of hair.
c ash-coloured
Having the colour of ash, namely, whitish grey or brownish grey.
a ashen
Having the same colour as ash; having a very pale complexion; like ash, grey,
pale; whitish grey.
c ashes of roses
A pinkish-grey colour.
a ashy
Grey; ash-coloured.
c asparagus
The green colour of asparagus; also referred to as ‘asparagus-green’.
n aspergillin
A black soluble pigment from the fungi Aspergillus.
c asphalt
Having the brownish-black colour of asphalt; dark grey.
n asphaltum
An ancient mixture of oil (or turpentine) and asphalt used by Rembrandt. Also
referred to as ‘bitumen’.
c asphodel
The rich yellow of the daffodil.
c asphodel green
A yellowish green.
n ASTM
The American Society for Testing and Materials founded in 1898 and now known
as ASTM International providing standards in many applications in over 130
industries including artists’ colours which are coded according to their
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lightfastness or permanence (Standard D4302-90). A colour with a 1 or 2 rating
is the most permanent. See Blue Wool Scale.
pr atr-, atri-, atro- (L)
Black; from the Latin ater ‘black’. The words ‘atrocious’, ‘atrabilious’ (melancholy)
and possibly ‘atrium’ (originally, says World Wide Words, the blackened walls
of a hall where there was a central fire but no chimney) are also derived from
this root.
n atrament, atramentum
Black ink. Any black colorant. A very dark brown pigment described by Pliny
and produced from calcined bones. In the ancient world atramentum librarium
was used as writing ink; atramentum sutorium for dyeing shoe leather and
atramentum pictorium was used by artists as a varnish.
a atramentaceous, atramentous
Inky.
c atred
Black.
vb atrocify; to
To blacken.
n atromentin
A bronze-coloured pigment in fungus.
a atrorubent
Reddish-black.
a atrosanguineous
The dark red of blood.
a atrous
Jet-black in colour.
a au blanc
A dish cooked in white sauce.
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a au bleu
A term applied to fish poached in stock made from root vegetables, vinegar or
wine which gives it a blue tinge. For example, truite au bleu.
a au brun
A dish cooked in brown sauce.
a au gratin
Brown – as regards the surface of food. Describing, in particular, a dish which
has been cooked with cheese until it has become brown. Also applied to food
cooked with breadcrumbs or in a white sauce cooked until brown. From the
French, gratiner, to brown.
a au rouge
Describing a dish cooked or served in a red sauce.
c aubergine
The purplish-blue of the vegetable, aubergine.
c aubergine purple
A shade of purple.
c auburn
A brownish-red or sometimes golden-brown colour especially as regards hair.
Auburn derives from the Latin albus meaning ‘white’ and originally indicated a
yellowish or brownish white colour. Its meaning changed during the 16th century
when (perhaps because it was sometimes spelt ‘abrun’) it came to be associated
with the colour brown.
n audition colorée
See synæsthesia and colour hearing.
pr aur-, auri-, auro-, aurat- (L)
Gold, golden.
n auramine
A yellow dye.
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pr auranti- (L)
Orange.
n aurantia
Orange-yellow dye.
n Aura-Soma
A form of colour therapy involving the application to the skin of a mixture of
coloured oils and herbs chosen by the patient from a selection of bottles. See
colour therapy.
a aureate
Gold in colour, gilded; golden-yellow.
a aurelian
Golden in colour.
n aureole, aureola
In astronomy and in relation to early paintings, a halo of light.
n aureolin
A yellow pigment. See cobalt yellow.
n auricome
Golden hair; hence ‘auricomous’ – having or regarding golden hair. See also
aurocephalous.
a auriferous, aurous
Containing gold.
n aurin
A red pigment made from phenol, oxalic acid and sulphuric
acid.
n auripetrum
Imitation gold leaf made from tinfoil painted with saffron.
adjective a
adverb adv
a colour c
noun n
prefix pr
suffix su
verb vb
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n auripigment
A vivid yellow also called King’s yellow and orpiment.
a aurocephalous
Blond; having a gold head.
c aurora
The deep orange colour at sunrise; the dawn or first light of day.
n aurora australis
The phenomenon consisting of streams of light (usually red, yellow, and green)
moving across the sky at the South Pole. It is thought that the so-called Southern
Lights and the Northern Lights (next mentioned) appear at the same time and
are in some way connected.
n aurora borealis
The phenomenon consisting of streams of light (usually red, yellow, and green)
moving across the sky at the North Pole. See previous entry.
c aurora yellow
Another name for cadmium yellow.
a auroral
Resembling the dawn in colour as well as in other respects.
a aurorean
Having the brilliant colours of the dawn.
a aurose
Golden.
a austere
As regards colours, sombre.
n autochrome process
The first effective form of colour photography. The process, making use of a plate
and starch, was invented by the Lumière brothers Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis
(1864-1948) in 1907 and was employed until the 1940’s.
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n autokinetic phenomenon
Appearance of movement of a point of light when shown on a dark background.
n autolithography
A colour printing process where the artist creates his work on the plate itself as
opposed to using a photographic process.
a autumn
An adjective used in the fashion trade to describe those colours considered to
be appropriate for wear in autumn and in colour psychology to classify and
differentiate between certain colour tones in their appropriateness for different
personality types.
c autumn brown
A warm reddish-brown.
n autumnal colours
The colours characteristic of Autumn, particularly in reference to the leaves of
the trees of the English countryside with their rich variety of russets, oranges,
browns, yellows and reds. In North America the amazing colour change is referred
to as ‘fall foliage’. The process occurs by reason of leaves in the fall being sealed
off from moisture giving rise to the chlorophyll in them breaking down. Their
green colour thus gradually becomes masked by yellow, orange and brown
pigments known as carotenoids also present in the leaves. There are also red
and purple pigments called anthocyanins. The red, purples and bronzes in some
trees derive from the sugar produced in the leaves being trapped by the colder
temperatures. See also erythrophyll, phylloxanthin and xanthophyll.
a avellaneous
The light brown colour of the hazel-nut or filbert-nut.
c aventurine
A dark brown colour so called after the brown glass of the same name speckled
with copper or gold and first manufactured in Italy.
c avocado
The green of the avocado – usually in reference to the pulp rather than the skin;
also avocado-green. Perhaps from the Spanish abocado – a delicacy – or the Aztec,
ahuacatl.
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n axanthin
A dye used in food, for example, to dye farmed salmon pink.
c azalea pink
An orange-red.
n azine dyes
Dyes (including azine green, azine red etc) produced from azine, an organic
compound.
pr azo-
Indicating many kinds of coal tar dyes and colours.
n azo, azoic
A group of synthetic dyes and pigments mainly made from petroleum by a process
known as diazotization first developed in the late 1850’s and providing colours
with much greater fastness than the aniline dyes. Azo pigments include Hansa
yellow and diarylide yellow.
n azolitmin
The main colouring matter of litmus.
c azulin, azuline
A greyish-blue.
c azure
Bright blue; frequently used to describe the blue of the sky on a cloudless day.
Originates from the Persian word al-lazhward meaning blue stone. A literary term.
Also ‘azure blue’. See sky blue.
c Azure
One of the colours in the X11 Color Set. It has hex code #F0FFFF.
c azurine
The colour blue; azure; greyish-blue; also a blue-black dye.