incarnadine |
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flesh-pink; blood-red.
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fuscous |
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brownish-gray in color.
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kermes |
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a red dye derived from dried females of a
scale insect, /Kermes ilices/, native to the
Mediterranean region.
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cochineal |
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a dye similarly from /Dactylopius coccus/,
which lives on certain New World cacti.
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lateritious |
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brick-colored.
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aeneous |
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bronze-colored.
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bistre |
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a brown pigment from wood soot.
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puccoon |
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one of certain plants producing a red dye.
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fulvous |
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yellow-brown or yellow-gray.
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ponceau |
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a bright red-orange color.
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glaucous |
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light blue-green; covered with a silvery bloom.
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orchil |
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a violet substance obtained from certain lichens,
chiefly /Roccella/ ssp.; a lichen yielding this dye.
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peachblow |
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a pale purplish pink.
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cudbear |
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a violet dye obtained from certain lichens,
esp. /Lecanora tartarea/.
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perse |
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colored a deep shade of blue or purple.
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anil |
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a shrub, /Indigofera suffructicosa/, yielding indigo;
the color indigo.
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merle |
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blue-gray with black markings, used esp. to
describe a dog's coat.
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atroceruleous |
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blue-black.
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fuliginous |
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sooty; soot-colored.
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animal black |
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boneblack, ivory black, or similar pigments of
calcined animal matter.
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lyard |
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(Brit. dial.) white- or grey-streaked.
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blae |
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blue-gray or -black; bleak; sunless.
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griseous |
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pearly gray.
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