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Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 11:41pm On Jul 28, 2014 |
1 mikado It's a Japanese emperor, a comic opera, and a bold yellow 3 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 11:45pm On Jul 28, 2014 |
2 Coquelicot Originally another word for poppy, coquelicot is the flower's orange-tinted red color. (It also sounds like a celebrity baby name.) 2 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 11:47pm On Jul 28, 2014 |
3 Smaragdine Smaragdine sounds like a Smurfs villain, but it means emerald green. It was the 2013 Pantone Color of the Year. 3 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 11:55pm On Jul 28, 2014 |
4 Sarcoline Wearing sarcoline—literally "flesh-eating colored"—high heels makes your legs look longer. Wearing a sarcoline leather jacket reminds everyone of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs . 1 Like
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 11:58pm On Jul 28, 2014 |
5 Glaucous Glaucous was first used as a color name in 1671, but it's more than a hue. It describes the powdery—and perfectly harmless—blue-green gray or blue-green coating on grapes and plums. 3 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by missdebs(f): 12:00am On Jul 29, 2014 |
same old colours, diff names...sarcoline ko, sarkodie ni 49 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:00am On Jul 29, 2014 |
6 wenge If you've ever shopped for furniture, you know wenge. It's that dark brown wood color with copper undertones that even classes up particle board. Actual wenge wood comes from the endangered Millettia laurentii legume tree 6 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:03am On Jul 29, 2014 |
7 fulvous What makes an owl or duck fulvous? Brownish-yellow feathers. 2 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:06am On Jul 29, 2014 |
8 xanadu It's a Chinese city, a 1980 musical flop, and the gray-green color of the philodendron leaf. 4 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:08am On Jul 29, 2014 |
9 falu The deep red shade commonly found on barns is Falu. It's named for the Swedish city of Falun, where it originated in a copper mine. 2 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:10am On Jul 29, 2014 |
10 eburnean Something that's eburnean is as white as ivory. Of course, ivory's not completely white—it has a slightly yellow shade. 1 Like
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by b3llo(m): 12:12am On Jul 29, 2014 |
flinton: 6 wengeDo you mean "Arsene Wenger"? 8 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:14am On Jul 29, 2014 |
11 amaranth Rose-red amaranth isn't just a plant. It's a color, too. The word amaranthine—with definitions including related to the amaranth, eternally beautiful, and everlasting—is also a pigment, but it's darker than amaranth. Not to mention that amaranths are actually short-lived perennials. Confused yet? 6 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:16am On Jul 29, 2014 |
missdebs: same old colours, diff names...sarcoline ko, sarkodie niLook closely, there different from conventional colours 2 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:17am On Jul 29, 2014 |
b3llo: Do you mean "Arsene Wenger"? ![]() |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by b3llo(m): 12:19am On Jul 29, 2014 |
flinton:nice job fire on. |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by Stunner1(f): 12:19am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Heard of dem... Ever heard of colors like byzantium or heliotrope ![]() M weird lyk dat ![]() ![]() |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by wheesin(m): 12:21am On Jul 29, 2014 |
chai...is it by force to find new things.. ![]() 18 Likes
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:26am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Stunner1: Heard of dem...Once heard of byzantium in my cousin beauty salon ladies talking about the colour kinda purplish, deep purple, gloomy sexy colour About heliotrope never heard of it! Gonna check it out 2 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:29am On Jul 29, 2014 |
b3llo: nice job fire on. ![]() |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by ifex370(m): 12:31am On Jul 29, 2014 |
goodnight... |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by Stunner1(f): 12:33am On Jul 29, 2014 |
flinton: Yea u right... U can also check ochre,ecru,taupe and alizarin(looks lyk amaranth) |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:36am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Stunner1:Alright, are u an artist? Or u studied colour psychology? 3 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by Stunner1(f): 12:41am On Jul 29, 2014 |
flinton: Nope.... M just into colors |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 12:42am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Stunner1: ![]() |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by XVIER(m): 4:00am On Jul 29, 2014 |
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Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by futajallon: 4:02am On Jul 29, 2014 |
flinton: the R is silent 1 Like |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by Nobody: 4:04am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Well I have heard of those colours before. It is just that I never heard of those names before. 3 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by Eyop: 4:06am On Jul 29, 2014 |
We know the colours with its original names but not with this repackaged japanese chin-chu names. 2 Likes |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by samseen02(m): 4:07am On Jul 29, 2014 |
still familiar with those colours bt some of it has diffrnt names |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by flinton(m): 4:08am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Eyop: We know the colours with its original names but not with this repackaged japanese chin-chu names.Lol, Watz their original names? |
Re: Colours You've Probably Never Heard Of by oxtine(m): 4:10am On Jul 29, 2014 |
Ayaf laff and tired. Dis names are sexy, sakorde ni sardine ko. Even wenger follow 1 Like |
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