Selected terms from color dictionaries.

Are we obligated to know what color this is - Bismarck Furioso? No, of course, unless we work as a fabric dyeing technologist.
And the color "fainted flea"? This is already interesting.
Recently, a significant part of the Internet has been enthusiastically figuring out what this "the color of the thigh of a frightened nymph" and how is it different from “the color of a frightened Masha’s thigh.”
When it comes to color designations, I always remember one soviet lady I know. This lady had a high opinion of herself, her beauty and intelligence. But I, a very young girl at that time, giggled quietly into my fist when the lady publicly talked about how she had ordered herself a chic “meat” color dress. It was one of two colors she knew. Second - have you guessed it yet? – yes, that’s right, bottle color. These colors were closest to her and therefore known. She treated them like Ellochka the cannibal with her thirty words.
But even in Soviet fashion magazines less common color terms could be mentioned, for example, electric blue, olive or ripe cherry color. Therefore, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to clarify what this name means. And sometimes you just have fun by reading what color it is "Jaco's last breath" or "The Dauphin's Surprise"

Car - [from fr. automobile< греч. "сам" + лат. mobilis "подвижной, движущийся"] - серовато-синий.

The name was used at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, since this was primarily the color of the first cars.

Adriatic - [from Adriatic (Adriatic Sea)< – греческая колония 6 в. до н.э.] – тёмно-голубой.

“...The paws of the spruce trees parted, and then descended, loudly slamming the “mother-in-law’s door” in the fashionable “Adriatic” color.
Modern name one of the car colors.

Hellish - [tracing paper from French. flame d"enfer] - figurative name red with lilac shade . See also Hellfire, Hellfire.

“The cart, welded unevenly and vilely by some drunk and painted in an absolutely hellish color, takes on the dead load and squeals as if it were alive.” (Yu. Aleshkovsky. Hand)

Chord - [from chord " combination of something. (more often - musical sounds), perceived as unity"< ит. accordo "созвучие"] – dark gray-beige.

Amethyst Night- [from amestist "semi-precious stone, a transparent variety of quartz"< нем. Amethyst, фр. am?thyste < греч. < "не" + "опьяняю"; название связано с древним поверьем, согласно которому этот камень притягивает винные пары и таким образом предохраняет его обладателя от сильного опьянения] – dark violet blue.

“Behind the thin shoulders, covered with a striped sleeveless vest, towered the long tube of an assault backpack the color of the Violet Night...”

Harlequin - [from Harlequin - the name of the character of the Italian national theater (the so-called commedia dell "arte), a witty servant-clown, whose characteristic accessory is a suit made from pieces of fabric of various colors< ит. arleccino] - motley, colorful. In the beginning. XIX century also called harlequin fashion fabric of multi-colored triangles, as well as a precious stone playing with all colors - noble opal. Nowadays it is often used to describe the color of animals.

Balsam - [from balsam "fragrant tincture or ointment from medicinal herbs; trans. a means of consolation, relief"< нем. Balsam < лат. balsamum < греч. < < по-видимому, из арабского источника] - зеленый.

Hips of a frightened nymph- [fr. cuisse de nymphe effrayée] - figurative name pink color with yellowish tint .

He was in a dark green tailcoat, trousers of the color cuisse de nymphe effrayée, as he himself said, stockings and shoes (L. Tolstoy. War and Peace); The blanket was satin, pink, the color of the thigh of a frightened nymph (I. Ilf, E. Petrov. Feuilletons, articles, speeches).

The color designation was borrowed by the Russian language from French, where it was fashionable at the end of the 18th century. In 1802, the name “thigh of a frightened nymph” was given to a new variety of roses, supposedly appearing in the flower beds of Jean-Pierre Vibert, the legendary creator of new varieties of flowers, as well as grapes. In Russia, under Emperor Paul, the lining of military uniforms was painted pink with a yellowish tint. But since the fabric for officers and soldiers was of different quality, the officer's shade was called the color of the thigh of a frightened nymph, and the soldier's shade was the color of the thigh of a frightened Masha.

Bismarck - [from Bismarck - the surname of the Reich Chancellor of the German Empire in 1871-1890. and one of the organizers of the Triple Alliance (1882), directed against France and Russia] - grayish yellow or brown.

Bismarck furioso - brown with a red tint.

Fainted flea- See Flea belly, Flea back, Flea, Flea; A flea in love; Dreamy flea, Pyusovy.Pyusovy – brown, brown shade of red, the color of a crushed flea– from the French puce - “flea”. New dictionary Russian language describes it as just dark brown. (There were also shades of “fainting flea”, “flea belly” and – they’re probably lying – the color “flea in childbed fever”).

Abdel-Kerim's beards- [on behalf of the popular in the middle. XIX century historical figure: Abdul Kerim Pasha - Turkish general (1811-1885), participant in Russian-Turkish military conflicts] - white, fading to gray.

Giraffe belly - combination of light brown and yellow with a reddish tint. In the summer of 1827, a small female giraffe appeared in the Paris Botanical Garden, sent by Mehmet Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, as a gift to the French King Charles X. The most fashionable colors of the summer of 1827 were called the color of “giraffe belly”, the color of “giraffe in love” or giraffes in exile color.

This page does not at all pretend to cover the topic completely, especially since so far I have limited myself to only the letters “a” and “b”. And so far I have chosen only those color terms that seemed the most exotic to me.

Those wishing to expand their knowledge in this area can follow these links:

In this section you can also read other articles on similar topics:

Adelaide is a red shade of mauve. According to other sources, dark blue. In the 40-50s of the XIX century. used in print: found in Turgenev (“Adelaide color, or, as we say, odelloid”) and Dostoevsky (“So this tie is Adelaide color?” - Adelaide, sir. Isn’t there agraphen color?”).

Adrianople - bright red, from the name of the paint that was made from madder.

Hellfire, hellfire - a purple shade of red. Or pearlescent red. Or black with red streaks.

Alabaster - pale yellow with matte shade.
Alizarin is the color of red alizarin ink.

Almandine - dark cherry.

Akazhu - the color of “mahogany”, from the French. acajou.

Amaranth is a color close to purple, violet. From the name of the plant “amaranth” - beauty, velvet, marigold, cock's comb (amaranth - red grass). Or the color of rosewood wood, lilac-pink, light purple.

Amyanthus - the color of amianth (a type of asbestos): whitish, off-white. most of all - about the color of the sky.

Bakanovy (cormorant) - from “cormorant” - crimson dye extracted from the scale; fake, made of madder, etc.

The gaff is deep red with a bluish tint.

The thighs of the frightened nymph are a shade of pink. Perhaps it arose at the beginning of the 19th century with the advent of a new variety of roses. (There is also a “nymph’s thigh” color. It is pale pink, the nymph is calm.) According to other sources, it was pink with an admixture of ocher. Under Emperor Paul, the lining of military uniforms was painted this color. But since the fabric for officers and soldiers was of different quality, the officer’s shade was called “the thigh of a frightened nymph,” and the soldier’s shade was called “the thigh of a frightened Masha.”

Beryl - named after beryl, a transparent greenish-blue stone.

Biscuit - delicate grayish-green.

Biskr - yellowish leather color for upholstery of upholstered furniture.

Bismarck Furioso - brown with a red tint.

Bisnoy - gray, silver.

Bistre - the color of bistre, thick brown, brown.

Blanc, or planche (from the French blanc - white), is a creamy shade of white. Dahl has a solid, flesh color.

Blockit - blue-blue. In Ukrainian, “blakitny” means blue.

Blond - the same as blond (fair-haired, blond).

Bordeaux wine is red-violet.

“Abdel-Kader’s beard” or “Abdel-Kerim’s beard” is a white material with a black tint and a gray tint.

Bristol Blue is a bright blue.

Lingonberry - once meant green (based on the color of the lingonberry leaf).

Brusyany, lumber - red, crimson, lingonberry colors.

Bulany - gray-beige.

Burny - the same as brown.

Busy - dark blue-gray or gray-blue.

White - blue. Woad was used instead of indigo.

Merry Widow is a shade of pink.

Verdepeshevy - yellow or pink tint green (similar to a green peach).

Verdigris - green-gray, from the French. vert-de-gris.

Vermilion - bright red, the color of scarlet cinnabar, from the French. vermilion.

Wine - yellowish-red.

Toad in love - greenish-gray.

Waxed - the color of wax, from yellow-gray to amber yellow.

Havana - gray with a hint of brown or vice versa.

Haiti - either pink or bright blue.

Clove - gray.

Heliotrope - the colors of heliotrope, dark green with spots of red or yellow. Or like a heliotrope flower, grayish-purple.

Hyacinth - the color of hyacinth (stone), red or golden orange.

Negro head - since the 18th century, people from Africa were quite often encountered on the streets of Moscow or St. Petersburg, so one of the brown shades received this name.

The pigeon's neck is a shade of gray.

Pea - gray or dirty yellow.

Hydrangea - soft pink.

Gridepearly is a pearly shade of grey.

Gulyafny - red, the color of ripe rose hips. but there was also a definition of this color as “pink”.

Goose droppings (merdua) are yellow-green with a brown tint.

Two-faced - with a shimmer, as if there were two colors on one side.

Edward's children are a shade of pink. (Children of Edward IV who died in the Tower?)

Djalo santo is yellow, obtained from the unripe berries of buckthorn or joster.

Wild, wild - light gray.

Dragon green is a very dark green.

Gorse - yellow, the color of the paint from the gorse flower.

Smoky - an obsolete form of the word "smoky"

Gendarme is a shade of blue. The word appeared at the end of the 19th century. thanks to the color of the gendarme uniform.

Hot - orange, deep orange.

Iron - approximately the same as the current “steel”.

Burnt coffee is a complex shade of brown.

Burnt bread is a complex shade of brown.

Girazole - milky with a rainbow tint, girazole -

An old name for precious opal.

Giraffe - yellow-brown.

Jonquil is the color of narcissus.

Zekry - dark, light blue, gray.

Incarnate - the color of raw beef, from lat. carneus, meat.

A frightened mouse is a soft gray color.

Judas tree - bright pink (The Judas tree, or crimson tree, has bright pink flowers).

Cocoa-shua is the color of hot chocolate.

Camelopard - yellowish brown.

Cardinal on straw - a combination of yellow and red (this is how the French aristocracy protested about the imprisonment of Cardinal de Rohan in the Bastille in connection with famous case about the “queen’s necklace”).

Karmazinny, karmezinny - rich red, from the French. cramoisi, the color of old fine crimson cloth.

Carmine, carmine - a shade of bright red.

Carmelite, capuchin - a pure shade of brown.

Castor - dark gray, the color of castor, wool cloth.

Casserole - reddish-red, the color of polished copper utensils.

Boiling, boiling-white - snow-white, the color of boiling - white foam formed when water boils.

Columbine - gray, from the French. colombin, "dove".

Cinnamon is the same as brown.

Royal blue - tracing paper from English. royal blue, bright blue.

Cochineal is bright red, slightly crimson.

Speckled, speckled - bright red, from it. Krapplack, the color of kraplak paint extracted from madder root.

Kumachovy - the color of kumach, a bright red cotton fabric.

Vitriol - piercing blue, the color of a solution of copper sulfate.

Cube - blue, deep blue, from the name of the plant cube (also known as indigo).

Partridge's eyes are light red.

Labradorite - the color of labradorite, feldspar with a beautiful blue tint.

Lavalier is yellowish-light brown. It came into fashion, unlike yuft, only in the middle of the 19th century.

Fallow deer (from the name of the animal) is yellowish-brown.

Forest chestnuts are dark brown with a reddish tint.

Lily - soft white, the color of a white lily.

London Smoke - dark grey.

Lord Byron is a dark brown with a reddish tint.

Elk - dirty white, the color of leggings.

Fainting frogs are a light grey-green.

Magic-gulaf - red-pink.

Magenta is a bright red, between red and violet. Judging by the fact that one of the flowers was named in honor of the Battle of Solferino in 1859 (see below), and another battle took place near the city of Magenta at the same time, perhaps this name arose at the same time.

May beetle is a red-brown color with a golden tint.

Marengo - gray with splashes of black. The name appeared after the Battle of Marengo in 1800. According to some sources, Napoleon’s trousers were exactly this color; according to others, locally produced fabrics self made were mostly dark gray.

Marengo-clair - light gray.

Marin, marina - light color sea ​​wave, from French marine, marine.

Marquise Pompadour - shade of pink. She took Active participation in work on the creation of Sevres porcelain. Rare pink color, obtained as a result of numerous experiments, is named after her - Rose Pompadour.

Massaka is dark red with a blue tint. Found in “War and Peace,” however, there he is “masaka”: “The countess should have worn a masaka velvet dress.”

Bear (aka bear ear) is a dark chestnut shade of brown.

Milori - dark blue, blue.

Mov - mauve.

Mordor, Mardor - a red-brown color with a golden tint. The name comes from the French more dore, literally "gilded Moor". This color was especially fashionable in the 1st half of the 19th century.

Moscow fire - similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.

Muramous, moire - grassy green.

Nakarat, nakarat - a shade of red, “hot”, scarlet. From French naca-rat.

Navarino flame with smoke (or smoke with flame) is a dark shade of gray, a fashionable color of cloth that appeared after the Russian victory over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in "Dead Souls". According to one option, Ichikov asks to see cloth “of dark, olive or bottle colors with a sparkle, approaching, so to speak, lingonberries,” in another, he wants to receive cloth “more sparkling, not like a bottle, but so that it would be closer to lingonberries.” And in the picture in the Moscow Telegraph there is a “cloth tailcoat, the color of Navarino smoke” - brown. The light with flame obviously denotes lighter shades.

Jade is a rich golden yellow, like some teas.

Cloudy - cloud colors.

Embraced - crimson.

Orletsovy - red-cherry-pink, the color of an eagle.

Opal - milky white, matte white with yellow or blue.

Oreldurs - dark brown with a reddish tint.

Aspen - green with a grayish tint.

Ophitic - the color of ophite, greenish marble.

Peacock - bluish-purple.

Fawn is a pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from the French. paille - “straw”. According to Dahl, fawn is straw-colored, pale yellowish. White-yellowish, yellowish-white; yellowish-whitish; about horses: Solovy and Isabella; about dogs: sexual; about pigeons: clayey. Karamzin sang the praises of pale cream.

Paris blue is a bright blue.

Parisian blue is light blue.

Parisian dirt - dirty- Brown color. Appeared after the public became acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sebastian Mercier “Pictures of Paris”.

Parnassian rose is a shade of pink with a purple tint.

A spider plotting a crime is a dark shade of gray. According to other sources - black with redness.

Pelesy - dark, brown.

Pervanche is pale blue with a lilac tint.

Pearl pearl - pearl gray, from the French. perle, pearl, pearls.

Orange - orange with pink.

Porphyry, porphyritic - purple.

The Gray's last breath is yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, a gray parrot's eyes turn yellow.

Floating - light yellow. Dahl's is yellowish-whitish, white-yellow, straw-colored.

Pragreen - bluish-greenish.

Prazemny - the colors of prazem, light green quartz.

Prunel is a shade of black, named after the color of ripe mulberry berries; At first, the shade was associated with prunel fabric, which was once only black.

Bouquet - (from spoiled “bouquet”), painted with flowers. From Ostrovsky: “Give me a piece of cloth for a dress and a French shawl.”

Crimson - bright, thick or dark scarlet (worm-like).

Puce - brown, brown shade of red, the color of a crushed flea - from the French puce - “flea”. The New Russian Dictionary describes it as simply dark brown. (There were also shades of “fainting flea”, “flea belly” and - they’re probably lying - the color of “flea in childbirth fever”).

Range - the same as orange.

Frisky cowgirl - shade of pink.

Empress vomit is a shade of brown.

Red - brown, red, reddish.

Pink Ash is a soft gray color that fades to pink.

Savoyard is a red-brown color with a golden tint.

Salmon is a shade of pink.

Celadon - grayish green.

Gray is the color of a dove, after which it is simply blue.

Silkovy - blue, cornflower blue.

Blue-scarlet - dark purple.

Sinetny is a church word meaning “solid blue.”

Blue - with a blue tint.

Scarlet - bright red, from the English. scarlet.

Smoky - a brown shade of gray, dirty gray.

Solovy - gray. The nightingale is named after this color.

Solferino is bright red. Named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French Wars in 1859.

Somo is pinkish-yellow. Found in War and Peace.

Old rose - dirty pink, desaturated in color.

Strizovy - bright red.

The Dauphin's surprise. It is also the color of childish surprise. According to legend, in Paris they began to dye fabrics in the color of diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her newly born two-hour-old son, who “disgraced himself” in front of them.

Tango - orange with a brown tint.

Tausinny - blue, from the word “peacock”. Bluish-purple. According to Dahl - dark blue, according to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language - dark blue with a cherry tint. There are tagashin and tagashovy options.

Terracotta - brown shade of red brick, rust.

Tourmaline - dark crimson, colors semi-precious stone tourmaline.

Fernambuco is a yellow-red paint extracted from fernambuco wood.

Pistachio - dirty green.

Milling cutter - the color of crushed strawberries, light crimson. According to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language - pink with a lilac tint. From French fraise, strawberry.

Fuchsia - rich pink.

Zinc - zinc-colored, bluish-white.

Worm-shaped - a mixture of crimson and blue, bright crimson.

Chermny - sparkling red.

Chesuchovy - the color of itch, yellowish-sand silk fabric.

Champagne - transparent yellow, champagne color.

Shamub - light reddish-brown, from the French. chamoi, camel.

Shanzhan - color with iridescent shades

Sharlah - bright red, from the name of the paint.

Chartreuse is yellow-green.

Schmalt - blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).

Ecru - ivory or unbleached linen, grayish-white.

Electric - sea green, blue, blue with a gray tint.

Electron - bright blue with green.

Yubagry (ugly) - crimson, light crimson; light blue.

Yuft - yellowish-light brown. The color yufti was widespread in the first quarter of the 19th century.

Yakhontovy - red, purple or dark blue.

Well, go ahead and pray:

People

Dauphin's surprise, the color of childish surprise- according to legend, in Paris they began to dye fabrics in the color of trimmed diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her just born two-hour-old son, who “disgraced himself” in front of them.
Empress Vomiting- shade of brown. Which empress became famous is not indicated - N.
Mordor, Mardor- a red-brown color with a golden tint. The name comes from Frenchmaure doré, literally "gilded Moor". This color was especially fashionable in the 1st halfXIXV.
Cardinal on straw - a combination of yellow and red (this is how the French aristocracy protested about the imprisonment of Cardinal de Rohan in the Bastille in connection with the famous “queen’s necklace” case).
Gendarme- shade of blue. The word appeared at the end of XIX century thanks to the color of the gendarme uniform.
Edward's children- shade of pink. (Children of EdwardIV, died in the Tower?)
Bismarck - brown. Its shades —
"Bismarck malade » (sick),
"Bismarck en colere » (angry),
"Bismarck glace » (restrained),
"Bismarck scintillant » (brilliant),
"Bismarck content » (funny).
Bismarck furioso ("angry") - brown with a red tint. -They brought the man! - N
Hips of a frightened nymph - shade of pink. Possibly arose at the beginningXIXV. with the advent of a new variety of roses. (There is also a “nymph thigh” color. It is pale pink - “the nymph is calm.”) According to other sources, it was pink with an admixture of ocher. Under Emperor Paul, the lining of military uniforms was painted this color. But since the fabric for officers and soldiers was of different quality, the officer’s shade was called "thigh of a frightened nymph", and the soldier's — “Frightened Masha’s thigh”
Merry Widow - shade of pink. That's how it is! - N
Negro head - WithXVIIIcenturies, people from Africa were quite often encountered on the streets of Moscow or St. Petersburg, so one of the brown shades received this name.
Frisky cowgirl- shade of pink

Just by name:
« Abdel-Kader's beard" or « Abdel-Kerim's beard" - white material with a black tint and a gray tint. - Who are you, Abdel-Kader or Kerim? - N
Bleu Raymond- shade of blue color(from fr. bleu"blue" + name Raymond ). - Who are you, Raymond in blue??? - N
Lord Byron- dark brown with a reddish tint.
Lavaliere- yellowish-light brown. Came into fashion, unlike yuft, only in the middle XIX centuries. - From Louise de La Vallière?
Cleopatra- purple.
Maria Louise - blue, the color of calamine (bright blue mineral)
Marquise Pompadour - shade of pink. She took an active part in the creation of Sevres porcelain. A rare pink color, obtained as a result of numerous experiments, is named after her—Rose Pompadour
Adelaide - a red shade of lilac. According to other sources, dark blue. In the 40s and 50s XIX V. used in the press and literature: found inTurgenev(“adelaide colors, or, as we say, odelloid”) andDostoevsky(“So this tie is Adelaidean?- Adelaidena, sir. “Isn’t there agrafenin color?”
Apollo- bright gold.
Aurora- oyster pink.
Aurora - on behalf of Aurora - the goddess of the dawn in Roman mythology. Light orange-pink or yellow with a reddish tint.

Animals:

Toad in love - greenish-gray.
Giraffe in love (or giraffe belly, or "giraffes in exile") - a combination of light brown and yellow with a reddish tint. This color, or rather its name, came from France: in 1827, a small female giraffe appeared in the Paris Botanical Garden, sent by Mehmet Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, as a gift to the French kingKarl H. It was the most fashionable color in 1827.
Goose droppings (merdua, merde d ’ oie ) - yellow-green with a brown tint
Scared mouse - soft gray color
Fainted frogs - light gray-green
Spider plotting a crime - dark shade of gray. According to other sources - black with red
Gray's last breath - yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, a gray parrot's eyes turn yellow

Battles, fire and fires contributed greatly to color definitions.

Hellfire, hellfire - purple shade of red. Or pearlescent red. Or black with red streaks
market fire - determining the shade is almost impossible due to the complexity of associations that arise in connection with this name: fiery red with an admixture of yellowish-blue or gray. The name came at the end XIX century - in memory of the terrible fire at a charity bazaar in Paris in May 1897 g., when a considerable number of people died in fire and smoke.
Navarino flame with smoke (or smoke with flame) - a dark shade of gray, a fashionable color of cloth that appeared after the Russian victory over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in "Dead Souls". According to one version, Chichikov asks to show cloth of “dark, olive or bottle colors with a sparkle, approaching, so to speak, lingonberries,” according to another- he wants to get cloth “more sparkling, not like a bottle, but like lingonberries so that it’s closer.” And in the picture in the Moscow Telegraph there is a “cloth tailcoat, the color of Navarino smoke”- brown. Flame color obviously denotes lighter shades
Moscow fire - similar to the color of crushed lingonberries
London smoke - dark grey

Solferino - bright red. Named afterBattle of Solferinoin the Austro-Italian-French War in 1859
Marengo - gray with splashes of black. The name appeared afterBattle of Marengoin 1800. According to some sources, Napoleon’s trousers were exactly this color, according to others - locally produced, hand-woven fabrics were mostly dark gray in color.
Magenta - bright red, between red and violet. Judging by the fact that in honor Battle of Solferino in 1859 one of the flowers was named (see below), and another battle took place near the city of Magenta at the same time, perhaps this name arose at the same time.

Cities

London dirt - dark brown
Paris blue- bright blue.
Paris blue - light blue.
Parisian dirt - dirty brown color. Appeared after the public became acquainted with the essays Louis-Sébastien Mercier "Pictures of Paris"
Baghdad - pinkish, colorsbrickdust

To interest us, attract attention, intrigue, manufacturers of tights and underwear often come up with such names color shades and combinations that are difficult not only to imagine, but also to understand what this or that shade actually is. We are already accustomed to the fact that nero is black, but, for example, few people know that the color fumo, beloved by many manufacturers, is smoky gray. More examples from our assortment: tights in greystone color – you can still guess what color “ gray stone", "ghotic grape" - a little more complicated - "dark grapes".

In the 18th century there was a whole cult of color. Completely unusual shades came into fashion, and they added to their popularity unusual names. The fashion for shades changed so quickly that not everyone had time to find out what was hidden behind the exotic name, when another new shade was already at its peak.

For some time, flea color was the rage, and there were many shades: the color of a flea head, flea back, abdomen, and the color of a dreamy flea. According to rumors, Marie Antoinette's milliner Mademoiselle Bertin introduced into fashion "the color of a flea during childbirth fever." They even reached such tones as the color of the Nile, the lava of Vesuvius, the color of a frightened mouse, a toad in love, a spider plotting a crime. As soon as the French queen Marie Antoinette gave birth to an heir, fleas were instantly forgotten. The highlight of the season was the color “Dauphine's surprise” - what is still called the “color of children's surprise”.

As we already wrote, this year is the most current color – marsala (marsala).

Still, in our time, color shades have quite digestible names. The history of the names of some shades is interesting, and we offer you our short dictionary colors.

Aventurine- [from aventurine “a mineral, a type of quartz, yellowish, brownish-red or green, permeated with sparkles of tiny inclusions of mica”; discovered by chance (per aventura) in 1750 fr. aventurine aventure “adventure”] – silver-black, black with a metallic sheen.

Adelaide, adelaidein - [from Adelaide (ancient German "noble" + "state, position") - the name of the heroine of Beethoven's song of the same name based on the verses of F. Mathisson] - a red shade of blue or lilac color, close to purple; the name was extremely fashionable in the mid-19th century. In the original text by Matisson we're talking about O purple color(purpur), which is associated with a sad, melancholy mood. “He was dressed in an old, tattered frock coat the color of Adelaide, or, as we say, odellonide” (I. Turgenev. Office). Color allowed in Japan.

Adrianople- bright red, from the name of the paint that was made from madder. Dahl has Adrianople - [after the name of the Turkish city of Adrianople, where the art of producing paints flourished] - bright red, paint made from madder.

Hellish, hellfire, hellfire— [tracing paper from French. flame d'enfer] lilac shade of red. Or pearlescent red. Or black with red streaks.

Alabaster, alabaster- (obsolete) - [from alabaster “a dense, fine-grained type of gypsum white, used for construction and various crafts» Greek Alabastron is the name of a city in Egypt] - pale yellow with a matte tint, matte white. More often about complexion and human skin.

Alizarin- color of red alizarin ink.

Almandine- [from almandine “gemstone from the garnet group” in Upper German. Almandin after the name of Mount Alabanda in Asia Minor] - dark red with purple tint, dark cherry.

Akazhu- [from fr. acajou language Tupi-Guarani acaju “tropical tree of the sumac family, so-called. "mahogany"] the color of mahogany.

Amaranth- a color close to purple, violet. From the name of the plant "amaranth" beauty, marigold, marigold, cock's comb (schirets - red grass). Or the color of rosewood wood, lilac-pink, light purple, crimson.

Amethyst night, amethyst- [from amestist “semi-precious stone, a transparent variety of quartz” German. Amethyst, fr. amthyste Greek “not” + “intoxicating”; the name is associated with the ancient belief that this stone attracts wine vapors and thus protects its owner from severe intoxication] - dark violet-blue, rich sparkling blue, violet-red with blue, cherry-lilac.

Amyanthus- color of amianth (a type of asbestos): whitish, off-white. most of all - about the color of the sky.

Anthracite- [from anthracite " best variety coal" (Greek) “coal”] - deep black, with a strong shine.

Harlequin, harlequin- [from Harlequin - the name of the character of the Italian national theater (the so-called commedia dell'arte), a witty servant-clown, whose characteristic accessory is a suit made from pieces of fabric of various colors, etc. arleccino] - variegated, multi-colored. In the beginning. XIX century Harlequin was also a name for fashionable fabric made of multi-colored triangles, as well as for a precious stone that plays with all colors - noble opal. Nowadays it is often used to describe the color of animals. Harlequin color, in which colored spots are scattered in separate areas on the head, withers, back and rump of the cat...

slate— the color of slate, used in the past for making educational boards: black-gray.

bottlenose dolphin- [from bottlenose dolphin "mammal of the dolphin family of the order of whales"] - silvery green-blue.

Hook- deep red with a bluish tint, dark red with a bluish or purple tint. Name options: gaff, crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson.

Bagretsovy— crimson color: bright crimson.

Purplish- an obsolete form of the word crimson.

market fire- determining the shade is almost impossible due to the complexity of associations that arise in connection with this name: fiery red with an admixture of yellowish-blue or gray. The name originated in late XIX V. - in memory of the terrible fire at a charity market in Paris in May 1897, when a considerable number of people died in the fire and smoke.

Cormorant, cormorant, cormorant — bright red paint from cochineal, used in painting [Turk. and Arab. bakkam] - red paint - bright red, crimson.

Barkansky— [from barkan “dense durable woolen fabric, patterned and plain-dyed, used for upholstery instead of expensive silk damask” ital. barracano Arabic-Persian barrakan] – one of the shades of the red range. Referred to as a color designation in the 30s-40s. XIX century

Hips of a frightened nymph- shade of pink. Perhaps it arose at the beginning of the 19th century with the advent of a new variety of roses. (There is also a “nymph’s thigh” color. It is pale pink, the nymph is calm.) According to other sources, it was pink with an admixture of ocher. Under Emperor Paul, the lining of military uniforms was painted this color. But since the fabric for officers and soldiers was of different quality, the officer’s shade was called “the thigh of a frightened nymph,” and the soldier’s shade was called “the thigh of a frightened Masha.”

Beryl- after the name of beryl, a transparent greenish-blue stone, greenish-blue.

Prussian blue, Prussian blue- [after the name of the paint obtained by the action of iron oxide salts on yellow blood-alkaline salt] intense blue. Also Prussian blue.

Buffalo- dark orange.

Billiard cloth, billiard tire- poisonous green.

Biscuit- [from biscuit - porcelain, not covered with glaze, but twice fired fr. biscuit bis “twice” cuit “baked”] - white with a grayish or greenish tint.

Biskr- yellowish leather colors for upholstery of upholstered furniture.

Bismarck- [from Bismarck - the surname of the Reich Chancellor of the German Empire in 1871-1890] - grayish-yellow or brown.

Bismarck furioso- brown with a red tint.

Bisnoi- arch. gray, silver, white.

Bistre- [from bistre - a transparent brown paint made from wood soot mixed with water-soluble vegetable glue; used by European artists of the 15th-18th centuries. for drawing with pen and brush, then gave way to sepia and ink fr. bistre lower-germ. biester “dark”] - thick brown, brown.

Blanzhevy, or planche (from the French blanc white), - yellowish-white, white with a cream tint, flesh-colored.

Bleu-Raymond, Bleu-Raymond- [from French bleu “blue” + male name Raymond (Raymond(d))] – a shade of blue.

Blockitny- (Polish) bright blue, blue-blue. Dahl's is blue and cornflower blue.

Blonde- [fr. blonde “golden, reddish, fair-haired, blond”] - light, with a golden-yellowish tint. More often about hair color. Adjective blond in the 18th – 19th centuries. often used in a different meaning: blonds were the name given to lace made from raw silk, initially golden, and then also white or black.

Bolkaty- black, dark.

Bordeaux wine(burgundy, burgundy) - red-violet, dark red with a lilac tint.

Bronze armor- green with a purple tint.

Brony- [cf. bron, brun, bron “ripe ear”, bronet “ripen” perhaps, other Indian. Bradhnas “reddish, dun”] - whitish, white-gray.

Thrown- crimson, purple.

Bristol Blue- bright blue.

Lingonberry- [from the name of the lingonberry] - one of the shades of red: the color of ripe lingonberries, light red, deep pink. However, for a long time this word in Russian meant green (based on the color of the lingonberry leaf). The color under this name was included in the description of the banner of Ivan the Terrible.

Beam, timber- red, crimson, lingonberry color.

Bransoliter- [from French brun solitaire “the only (of its kind) brown or dark”; another meaning is solitaire “precious stone”] – a shade of brown.

Bulany- [from Turk. bulan “deer, elk”] - yellowish, different shades, especially light ones; sometimes with a dark tail and mane and with the same stripe on the ridge.

Burmatny- [possibly from Polish. brunatny “brown, brown” Middle-century-N. brûnât “dark cloth”, Middle German. braun “brown”] - dark gray, as if covered with dust.

Bushy, brown- the same as brown, reddish-brown.

Busy- [possibly from ancient Turkic. boz “gray, dark”] - dark bluish-gray; sometimes about an indeterminate color. At Dahl's (sib). dark blue-gray, izbura-gray, brown-smoky, brown-ash; about wool, dark brown with blue, bluish-brown (V. Dal. Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language). Tatar lithari is greenish-beaded / Adjacent to the Venetian beaded one (M. Voloshin).

Oxblood- black with a reddish tint.

Vaidovy- dark blue, blue. Woad was used instead of indigo. Later, in connection with the development of synthetic indigo production, the cultivation of indigo almost ceased.

Currency- gray-green, dollar color.

Wenge— [from wenge “a hardwood species of trees growing in the tropical jungles of West Africa.” Wenge wood has a variety of color shades: from golden to dark brown with black veins] - dark reddish brown with black veins.

Verdepeshevy- [from fr. vert-de-peche "peach green"] - a yellowish or pinkish shade of green, similar to the color of an unripe peach. Such names were most popular in the first half of the 19th century.

Verdepomovy- [from fr. vert-de-pomme “apple green”] - light green, the color of unripe apples.

Verdigris- green-gray, from French. vert-de-gris.

Verdragon- [French vert dragon “green dragoon”; green color of dragoon uniform; another understanding is possible: dragon “dragon”] - a shade of dark green.

Vermilion, vermilion- [French vermillion “bright red, scarlet; blush"] - bright scarlet with an orange tint.

Merry Widow- shade of pink. The name was popular in the 18th century.

Viardot- [distorted fr. vert d'eau "water green"] - light green, sea green. There is an option for water greens.

Wine- yellowish-red.

Toad in love- greenish-gray.

Crow's eye- black, deep black shade - recommended for expensive tailcoats; only wool of the highest quality could be this color. Any other very soon acquired a reddish tint.

Raven's wing- black with a bluish tint.

Vohra, vokhryany- the same as ocher.

Waxed, waxy- wax color, from yellow-gray, honey to amber yellow.

Otter- the color of otter fur, dirty green.

Havana or Havana brown- dark brown, chocolate and lighter, chestnut or slightly purple, reminiscent of the color of Havana cigars.

Haiti- or blue and red - the colors of the Haitian flag, which symbolizes the union of blacks and mulattoes.

Jet- black amber, with a bright resinous sheen, jet color - black or brown-black.

Heliotrope- 1) heliotrope colors (bloodstone, bloody jasper, bloodstone), mineral, a type of chalcedony; dark green chalcedony with bright or dark red (“bloody”) spots and stripes. 2) heliotrope flower, a fragrant garden plant with dark purple flowers. 3) arts. organic paint for painting cotton fabrics in red-violet color.

Hemorrhoidal— buzzword early 20th century: red complexion unhealthy person, in Ushakov’s dictionary - gray-yellow, emaciated. Also paralytic.

Hyacinth- hyacinth (stone) color, red or golden orange.

Negro head— since the 18th century, people from Africa were quite often encountered on the streets of Moscow or St. Petersburg, which is why one of the brown shades received this name.

Cabbage roll, mountain blue, English mountain blue- bright blue paint.

Pigeon neck- shade of gray.

Pea- the color of boiled gray peas, yellow-gray, wild yellowish.

Hydrangea- light pink.

Grideperlivy- pearl shade of gray. At the beginning of the century it was called and written only in French.

Guljafny- astrah. rose, rosean; rose hip. Gulaf water, rose water, distilled on rose petals, rose hips.

Goose droppings (merdua)- yellow-green with a brown tint.

Two-faced- with ebb and flow, with play, multi-colored, as if two colors on one side.

Edward's children- shade of pink. Delaroche’s painting “Children of Edward IV” 1830-1831, Paris, Louvre, which brought him great popularity; even a hairstyle “like Edward’s children” came into fashion).

Jalo santo- yellow, obtained from unripe buckthorn or joster berries.

Wild, wild- light gray. natural color source material not bleached or dyed

Dragon green- very dark green. “That was the first time I saw dragon glass.
I'm sure nothing like it has ever existed. At first you see only a greenish shimmering transparency, like in the sea when you swim underwater on a calm summer day and look up... Around the edges there are splashes of scarlet and gold, the radiance of emerald, the sparkle of silver and the shine of ivory. And at the base is a topaz disk framed by red flames sparkling with small yellow tongues.” (Abraham Merritt, Through Dragonglass)

Dragon blood- this was the original color of the Mikhailovsky Castle, the color of the gloves of Paul I’s favorite maid of honor.

Drokovy- bright yellow, the color of the dye from the gorse flower.

Smoky, smoky- similar in appearance or color to smoke; gray, wild, mousey, blue, dark water.

Gendarme- shade of blue. There was even an expression “blue pants”, which denoted employees of the gendarmerie department.

Hot (aka hot)- orange, deep orange.

Burnt coffee

burnt bread- a complex shade of brown.

Girazole- milky with a rainbow tint, girasol - the old name for noble opal.

Giraffe- yellow-brown.

Giraffe belly or giraffe belly- a combination of light brown and yellow with a reddish tint. In the summer of 1827, a small female giraffe appeared in the Paris Botanical Garden, sent by Mehmet Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, as a gift to the French King Charles X. The most fashionable colors of the summer of 1827 were called the color of “giraffe belly”, the color of “giraffe in love” or giraffes in exile color.

Jonquil- golden yellow, jonquil is one of the species of the narcissus genus.

Zekry- light blue, gray. Blue-eyed. Zekry (blue) eyes.

Isabella- pale straw, dirty straw pink. After the name of the Spanish Queen Isabella, who gave it in 1604. vow: do not change shirts for three years.

Indigo- dark blue paint. It is extracted from the juice of a tropical plant of the legume family.

Incarnate- (from Latin “carneus” meat) the color of raw beef, crimson, raspberry.

Scared mouse- soft gray color.

Judas tree- bright pink, like the flowers of the Judas tree.

Cocoa Shua- (French “cacao-choix” selected cocoa). This is a dark brown liqueur.

Camelopard- yellowish brown.

Cardinal on straw- a combination of yellow and red. When Cardinal de Rohan was arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille, Parisian milliners, in mockery of the Queen, came up with a ladies' hat, nicknamed "Cagliostro" or "The Queen's Necklace." Since it was made from straw in the colors of the cardinal’s coat of arms, it was also called the “cardinal’s hat on straw” and, in order to pity the public, a rumor was spread that His Eminence had to sleep in prison on straw. The hat was also decorated with a necklace reminiscent of the famous necklace of Boehmer and Bessange.

Karmazinny, karmezinny- (French cramoisi) bright scarlet, crimson; made of bright scarlet crimson cloth.

Carmine- bright red.

Carmelite, capuchin- pure shade of brown. Back in the 18th century, pure shades of brown became widespread: “carmelite”, “capuchin”, etc. Subsequently, shades of brown became more complex, and complex colors appeared. For example, there was a shade of “burnt bread” or “burnt coffee” and “forest chestnuts”.

Castor- dark gray, the color of castor, woolen cloth.

Casserole- reddish-red, the color of polished copper utensils, often applied to cars.

KashU or catechu- red-brown, brown, tobacco. It is obtained from acacia wood (Acacia catechu) of the mimosa family, native to India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). By boiling the crushed wood, an extract is obtained, which is evaporated into a solid red-brown mass. KashU gives with alumina - yellow, with iron salts - olive, with copper. and chrome - brown and black. Sometimes porridge means two absolutely different colors: blue or bright red. In explanatory dictionaries this color is often interpreted as tobacco.

Boiled, boiling white- white, like boiling water, snow-white, the color of white foam from boiling.

Columbine- (from the French “colombin” dove) dove, gray.

Cinnamon- from “cinnamon” the same as brown.

Royal Blue— tracing paper from English. royal blue, bright blue.

Cochineal- from cochineal paint, extracted from insects, purple, vermilion, bright red, slightly crimson.

Speckled, speckled- scarlet, madder, bright red, from it. Krapplack, the color of kraplak paint extracted from madder root.

Dye- red color, redness, redness.

Kumachovy- sometimes meaning. red, scarlet, the color of calico.

Vitriolic- piercing blue, the color of copper sulfate solution.

Vat- bright blue, deep blue, from the name of the plant cube (aka indigo).

Partridge's eyes- designated in periodicals as light red.

Labrador- the color of labradorite, a feldspar stone, with a rainbow tint, from the smallest cracks in it. Labradorite itself is colorless, white or gray, and forms complex doubles, often with a beautiful iridescent light of blue-green and golden shades.

Lavaliere- leathery shade of brown - yellowish-light brown. It came into fashion, unlike yuft, only in the middle of the 19th century.

Lani(from the name of the animal) - yellowish-brown.

Forest chestnuts- dark brown with a reddish tint.

Lily- soft white, whiteness, tenderness reminiscent of a lily, i.e. lily Lily brow. Lily breast.

London smoke- dark grey.

Lord Byron or Byrons- [on behalf of English. poet J. Byron] - a reddish, but rather dark shade of brown, close to dark chestnut.

Losinny- off-white, the color of leggings.

Fainted frogs- light gray-green.

Magovo-gulafny- red-pink.

Magenta- from Italian - bright red, magenta, from English. - purple, between red and violet. Color from a mixture of red and blue light, a narrowed range from the purple sector. Looks like a fuchsia flower. Perhaps the name arose after the battle near Magenta (northern Italy) in 1859.

Chafer- a red-brown color with a golden tint.

Poppy color[most often about the face] - the color of red poppy: ruddy, crimson.

Marengo- gray with splashes of black. It appeared after the Battle of Marengo in 1800. The fact is that locally produced hand-woven fabrics were mostly dark gray in color.

Marengo-clere- light gray.

Marin, Marina- the color of a light sea wave, from the French. marine, marine.

Marquise Pompadour- shade of pink. She took an active part in the creation of Sevres porcelain. The rare pink color, obtained as a result of numerous experiments, is named in her honor - Rose Pompadour.

Massaca- dark red with a blue tint. Well known in the first half of the 19th century. Found in “War and Peace,” however, there he is “masaka”: “The countess should have worn a masaka velvet dress.”

Bearish, bearish ear

Milori- dark blue, blue, Prussian blue.

Mov- mauve. Mauvéine (French: aniline purple) is the first synthetic dye, obtained in 1856.

Mordor, Mardor- a red-brown color with a golden tint. The name comes from the French more dore, literally "gilded Moor". This color was especially fashionable in the 1st half of the 19th century.

Moscow fire- similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.

Muram, moire- grassy green.

Naked- bodily.

Nakaratovy- a shade of red, “hot”, scarlet. From French naca-rat.

Navarino flame with smoke(or smoke with flame) - a dark shade of gray, a fashionable color of cloth that appeared after the Russian victory over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in "Dead Souls".

Nankovy(nanka, nankin) - the color of coarse cotton fabric, once brought from Nanjing: dirty yellow.

Jade- rich golden yellow, like some types of tea.

Cloudy- the color of the cloud.

Converted- crimson.

Orletsovy- red-cherry-pink, eagle color.

Opal- milky white, matte white with yellow or blue.

Oreldurs- a reddish, but rather dark shade of brown.

Aspen- green with a grayish tint.

Ophitic- color of opite, greenish marble.

Peacock- bluish-lilac.

Pale yellow- pale yellow, dull yellow, pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from French. paille "straw". Dahl's is straw-colored, pale yellowish. White-yellowish, yellowish-white; yellowish-whitish; about horses: Solovy and Isabella; about dogs: sexual; about pigeons: clayey. Karamzin sang the praises of pale cream.

Paris blue- bright blue.

Paris blue- light blue.

Parisian dirt- dirty brown color. Appeared after the public became acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sébastian Mercier “Pictures of Paris”.

Parnassian rose- a shade of pink with a purple tint.

Spider plotting a crime- the same dark gray color as marengo. According to other sources - black with redness.

Pelesy- dark, brown.

Pervanche- grayish blue, pale blue with a lilac tint.

Pearl barley- (from the French perle, pearl, pearl) pearly, white, with a bluish tint.

Orange- orange, ore-yellow, hot. Dahl's orange tree and fruit are bitter orange.

Porphyry- purple, crimson; (from the Greek porphýreos - purple) the name comes from a peculiar red rock with large white phenocrysts of orthoclase (ancient P.), widely used for jewelry and sculptures in Ancient Rome. Purple dye was in great use in Babylon in ancient times. Since ancient times, respectful attention has been preserved to persons who can afford to purchase expensive products - including valuable dyes: purple, lapis lazuli, and later carmine... Therefore, in particular, purple and porphyry are ancient symbols of power, signs of the royalty of their owner. The purple dye was obtained from the juice of a certain kind of shell or snail found in the Mediterranean Sea, and sometimes from the juice of an insect found in a type of oak tree (cochineal).

Gray's last breath- yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, a gray parrot's eyes turn yellow.

Floating- light yellow. Dahl's is yellowish-whitish, white-yellow, straw-colored.

Green- bluish-greenish.

Prizemny- the color of prazem, light green quartz.

Prunel's- a shade of black, named after the color of ripe mulberries; At first, the shade was associated with prunel fabric, which was once only black.

Puketovy- (from spoiled “bouquet”), painted with flowers. From Ostrovsky: “Give me a piece of cloth for a dress and a French shawl.”

Crimson- bright, thick or dark scarlet (worm-shaped).

drunk cherry- brown with a reddish tint.

Pyusovy- a brown, brownish shade of red, the color of a crushed flea from the French puce "flea". The New Russian Dictionary describes it as simply dark brown. (There are also references to the shades of “flea”, “flea”; “flea belly”, the color of “flea in childbirth fever”, “fainted flea”, “flea back”, “flea in love”, “dreamy flea” ... ). One summer in 1775, Marie Antoinette appeared in a dress made of dark silk taffeta. “This is the color of a flea!” exclaimed the king. And the word and fashion, of course, were picked up, and the whole yard dressed in the “color of a flea.” Paris and the provinces, naturally, hastened to imitate him.

Ranked- the same as orange.

Frisky cowgirl- shade of pink.

Empress Vomiting- shade of brown.

Rdyanyi- red, scarlet.

Redry - brown, red, reddish.

rusty- rusty, red.

Pink Ash- soft gray color, tinged with pink.

Ore yellow- orange, red.

Rudy- yellow with a reddish tint.

Sazhnoy- soot color: black.

Savoyarsky- a red-brown color with a golden tint.

Salmon- shade of pink.

Sepia(aka Chinese ink) - brown, paint obtained from cuttlefish ink.

Celadon- grayish-green.

Gray- the color of a dove, then just blue.

Silkovy- blue, cornflower blue.

Blue-scarlet- dark purple.

Blue- a church word meaning "solid blue."

Blue- with a blue tint.

Scarlet- bright red, from English. scarlet.

Smaragdine- the color of emerald (an outdated name for emerald).

Smury- brown shade of gray, dirty gray, dark, mixed color, izbura-black-gray, dark gray, dark brown. This is what the peasants called the dark gray color. It turned out this way. When making woolen fabrics at home, the yarn was rarely dyed. Materials from it were obtained in various dirty gray shades of color. natural wool- sometimes with a brownish tint.

Soldier's- the color of the gray cloth of a soldier's overcoat of the tsarist army.

Solovy- gray-yellow. The nightingale is named after this color.

Solferino- bright red. This shade became especially popular after 1859, named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French War.

Somo, somu (somon)- from French saumon salmon, salmon: light pink-yellow, flesh-colored pinkish-yellow. Found in War and Peace.

Asparagus- asparagus color: olive.

old rose- dirty pink, unsaturated color.

Strizovy- bright red.

Wax wax- brown, the color of postal sealing wax.

Dauphin's Surprise. It is also the color of childish surprise. According to legend, in Paris they began to dye fabrics in the color of diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her newly born two-hour-old son, who “disgraced himself” in front of them.

Tango- orange with a brown tint. Named after the dance of the same name. It was first used in 1897 in the musical play "Creole Justice".

Tausinny- blue, from the word “peacock”. Bluish-purple. According to Dahl, dark blue, according to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language, dark blue with a cherry tint. There are tagashin and tagashovy options.

Terracotta- brown shade of red brick, rust.

Tourmaline- dark crimson, the color of the semi-precious tourmaline stone.

Fernambuc- yellow-red, paint extracted from fernambuca wood - red sandalwood, Caesalpina dye tree, Brazilian wood, and yellow paint made from it. Fernambuco paper painted with it turns brown from alkalis, and therefore it is used to test liquids for alkali.

Pistachio- dirty green.

Milling cutter- [from French “fraise” strawberry] the color of crushed strawberries, light crimson. According to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language, pink with a lilac tint.

Fuchsia- rich pink.

Khaki is a complex grayish-brownish-greenish color. Usually uniform. Name from English - khaki, dating back to Indian. from Pers. hak - earth, dust.

Chrysolite— Peridot gemstone color: yellowish-green.

Chrysoprase— color of the semi-precious stone chrysoprase: lush green.

Cyanogen- also blue-green, poisonous blue, sea green.

Tsininny- green.

Zinc- zinc-colored, bluish-white.

Chervonny- red, scarlet, bright red.

Scarlet, worm-like- a mixture of crimson and blue, bright crimson, crimson and crimson, the color of a worm, bright crimson. The scale insect is a Coccus insect that produces scale paint.

Chermnoy- red, sparkling red or scarlet, crimson, dark red; muddy red color...

Inky- purple ink color.

Chesuchovy- the color of chesuchi, yellowish-sand silk fabric.

Champagne- transparent yellow, champagne color.

Shamub- [from French "chamoi" ​​camel] light red-brown.

Shanzhan- color with iridescent shades. Shanzhan is a multi-colored fabric with a contrasting texture. By using differently colored threads for warp and weft when making smooth fabrics, an iridescent color effect is obtained, the so-called. "shanzhan" effect.

Sharlah or sherlac - bright red, from the name of the paint, the color and paint are bright crimson, scarlet.

Chartreuse- yellow-green.

Schmalt- blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).

Ecru- ivory or unbleached linen, grayish-white, cream.

Electrician- sea green, blue, blue with a gray tint.

Electron- bright blue with green.

Yubagry(ugly) - crimson, light crimson; light blue.

Yuftevy, Yuftyanoy, Yukhotny- leathery shade of brown - yellowish-light brown. The color yufti was widespread in the first quarter of the 19th century.

Verdigris verdigris, verdigris- bright green paint, obtained by oxidation of copper.

Yakhontovy- red, purple or dark blue.

This list, as you might guess, is far from complete. You may have heard about other shades that are not in it. For example, about those that came into fashion not so long ago: “berry”, “unbleached wool”, “sugar”, “safari”. I wonder what else fashion will bring us?