The most unusual paint colors. Unusual color names Which color do you like best? Color names

I searched the Internet, combined several existing lists, supplemented with two dictionaries, including Dahl, translated something from English. The mixture turned out to be explosive, and "salon" terms, and "folk", but after all magician-ghoul no worse oreldursovogo. :)

Aventurine- purple, dark red.
Aurora- oyster pink.
Adelaide- red shade of lilac. According to other sources, dark blue. In the 40-50s of the XIX century. used in the press: it is found in Turgenev ("the color of adelaide, or, as we say, odelloid") and Dostoevsky ("So is this tie of adelaide's color? - Adelaidina-s. - Is there no color of agrafenin?").
Adrianople- bright red, from the name of the paint, which was made from madder.
Hellfire, Hellfire- lilac shade of red. Or pearlescent red. Or black with red streaks. Appears in fashion magazines since the late 1820s.
Alabaster- pale yellow with a matte shade.
Alizarin- color of red alizarin ink.
Almandine- dark cherry.
I will- the color of "mahogany", from the French. acajou.
Amaranth- color close to purple, violet. From the name of the plant "amaranth" - beauty, velvet, velvet, cockscomb (squid - red grass). Or the color of the wood is rosewood, lilac pink, light purple.
Amiante- the color of amiant (a type of asbestos): whitish, off-white. Most often - about the color of the sky.
Harlequin, harlequin- multi-colored, variegated (in early XIX century the so-called fabric of multi-colored triangles)
Apollo- bright gold.
Babeta
Baghdad- pinkish, brick dust color.
Bakanovy (Bakanovy)- from "bakan" - crimson dye extracted from a worm; fake, madder, etc.
Hook(scarlet, crimson, crimson) - deep red with a bluish tinge)
Bazaar fire- the definition of the shade is almost impossible due to the complexity of the associations arising 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 the charity bazaar in Paris in May 1897, when a large number of people died in fire and smoke.
Barkansky- one of the shades of the red range (from "barkan" - a dense, durable woolen fabric, patterned and one-colored, used for upholstering furniture instead of an expensive silk damask)
Bistrovy- thick brown, brown (from "bistre" - transparent brown paint made of wood soot mixed with water-soluble vegetable glue).
Terrified nymph's thighs- a shade of pink. Perhaps it arose at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a new variety of roses. (There is also the color "nymph's thigh." 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 in 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 - "the thigh of a frightened Masha".
Beryl- by the name of beryl, a transparent greenish-blue stone.
Biscuit- delicate grayish green.
Biskra- yellowish leather colors for upholstery of upholstered furniture.
Bismarck-furioso- brown with a red tint.
Bisnoy- gray-haired, silvery.
Bistrovy- bistra color, thick brown, brown.
Blange, or flatbed (from fr. blanc- white), - a creamy shade of white. Dahl has a solid, flesh color.
Blaise- green with a white tint. ("Moscow Telegraph", v. 30).
Bleu-d-amour- bluish gray (from fr. bleu d'amour, found in Turgenev's "Notes of a Hunter").
Bleu Raymond- a shade of blue (from Fra. bleu"blue" + name Raymond).
Blocky- blue-blue. In Ukrainian, "blakitny" means blue.
Blonde- the same as the blond (blond, blond). Light with golden distinction, by the name of the lace "blond".
Loose- black, dark.
Bordeaux wine- red-violet.
"Beard of Abdel-Kader", or "Abdel-Kerim's beard" - a material of white with a black tint and gray tint.
Bristol blue- bright blue.
Bronze armor- green with a purple tint ("Moscow Telegraph", v. 30).
Brony- white and gray.
Lingonberry- once meant green (by the color of the lingonberry leaf).
Beamed, beamed- red, crimson, lingonberry color.
Giraffe belly- a combination of light brown and yellow with a reddish tint.
Bransolitera- a shade of brown.
Bulany- gray beige.
Burnasty- the same as brown.
Busy- dark blue-gray or gray-blue.
Vaidovy- blue. Vaida was used instead of indigo.
Vesuvius- a shade of orange ("This is nothing but Orange color flowing into a punch "," Fashionable shop ", January 1862).
Merry widow- a shade of pink.
Verdepea- yellow or pink shade of green (similar to peach green).
Verdepomovy- light green, the color of unripe apples.
Verdigri- green-gray, from fr. vert-de-gris.
Verdragon- a shade of dark green, from fr. vert dragon.
Vermilion- bright red, the color of scarlet cinnabar, from fr. vermillion.
Wine- yellowish red.
Toad in love- greenish gray.
Queen hair- "I must admit that this queen had a strange hair color, because cheveux de la reine is nothing more than light havana, that is, gray with a brown tint or something like that. Anyway, only this color is pleasant and is used , with great success, for hats and dresses "(Fashion Store, 1862)
Raven eye- black. It was recommended for fashionable tailcoats. It was possible to achieve this shade using only high-quality wool (low-grade yarn acquired a reddish tint over time).
Waxing- the color of the wax, from yellow-gray to amber-yellow.
Otter- dirty green.
Havana- gray with a shade of brown or vice versa.
Haiti- either pink or bright blue. "The last color is bright pink and is probably called Haitian because there is a lot of heat in Haiti" (Moscow Telegraph, 1826)
Garibaldi- dark orange turning into salmon pink.
Clove- Gray.
Heliotrope- heliotrope colors, dark green with spots of red or yellow color... Or like a heliotrope flower, mauve.
Hyacinth- hyacinth (stone) color, red or golden orange.
Hyena skin- a shade of black.
Negro head- since the 18th century, immigrants from Africa have often met on Moscow or St. Petersburg streets, so one of the brown shades got this name.
Blue Elodia- a shade of blue, according to the color of the dress of the heroine of the novel "The Hermit" by the Viscount d "Arlencourt.
Pigeon neck- shade of gray.
Pea- gray or dirty yellow.
Hydrangea- light pink.
Gris de laziness- pinkish-gray (from the French gris de lin, found in Turgenev's "Notes of a Hunter").
Grizzly- pearl shade of gray.
Grizdolinovy- gray striped, from fr. gris d "un ligne
Grozelevy- red-black, currant.
Gulinny- purple. According to other sources - a variant of the word "angulinic", ie. dark, black.
Gully- red, the color of ripe rose hips or red roses. But there was also a definition of this color as "pink".
Goose droppings (merdua)- yellow-green with brown tint.
Dahlia- possibly dark red.
Two-faced- with a precursor, as it were, of two colors on one side.
Devonshire brown- light yellow
Edward's children- a shade of pink. (Children of Edward IV who died in the Tower?)
Djalo santo- yellow, obtained from unripe buckthorn berries or joster.
Wild, wild- light gray.
Dragon green- very dark green.
Frantic- yellow, the color of the gorse flower paint.
Smoky- an outdated form of the word "smoky".
Egyptian brown- nutmeg color.
Gendarme- 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- about the same as the current "steel".
Burnt coffee
Burnt bread- complex shade of brown.
Zhirazol- milky with a rainbow tint, zhirazol -
old name for noble opal.
Giraffe- yellow-brown.
Giraffe belly- yellow-brown and yellow with a reddish tint.
Zhonkilev- daffodil color, golden yellow or cold yellow.
Zekry- dark, light blue, gray.
Green Charles X- a shade of green.
Zetinny- olive.
Snake skin- a shade of green.
Incarnate- the color of raw beef, from lat. carneus, meat.
Scared mouse- pale gray color.
Judah tree- bright pink (Judas tree, or scarlet, flowers are bright pink).
Cocoa shua- color of chocolate, red-brown, closer to brown.
Camelopard- yellowish brown.
Capuchin- the color of the monastic robe, dark brown with a golden tint.
Cardinal on the straw- a combination of yellow and red (as the French aristocracy protested against the imprisonment of Cardinal de Rogan in the Bastille in connection with the famous case of the "Queen's necklace").
Karmazinny, karmazinny- deep red, from fr. cramoisi, the color of the old thin cloth karmazin.
Carmelite- light brown, like the robes of Carmelite nuns.
Carmine, carmine - a shade of bright red.
Carmelite, Capuchin- a pure shade of brown.
Castor- dark gray, castor color, woolen woolen cloth.
Pan- reddish-red, the color of polished copper dishes.
Boiled, boiled white- snow-white, boiling color - white foam formed when water boils.
Porridge- recommended as blue, and a little later it was presented as bright red. In explanatory dictionaries, this color is often interpreted as tobacco.
Cleopatra- purple.
Columbine- gray, pale blue-gray, from fr. colombin, "pigeon".
Congo- polished cuprous gold.
Cinnamon- the same as brown.
Royal blue- tracing paper from fr. ble de roi, bright blue.
Cochineal- bright red, slightly crimson.
Speckled, speckled- bright red, from it. Krapplack, the color of crappleak paint, extracted from madder root.
Kumachovy- the color of kumach, bright red cotton fabric.
Vitriolic- piercing blue, the color of a solution of copper sulfate.
Vat- blue, deep blue, from the name of the plant cube (it is also - indigo).
Partridge eyes- light red or deep red-orange.
Labrador- the color of Labrador, feldspar with a beautiful blue tint.
Lavalier- yellowish light brown. Came into fashion in the middle of the 19th century.
Lavendel- blue-purple, like a lavender flower.
Doe(from the name of the animal) - yellowish brown.
Forest chestnuts
Lily- pale white, the color of a white lily.
London smoke- dark grey.
London mud- dark brown.
Lord Byron- dark brown with a reddish tint.
Losinny- off-white, leggings color.
Fainted frogs- light gray-green.
Magician-ghoul- red-pink.
Magenta- bright red, between red and purple. 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, it is possible that this name arose at the same time.
Chafer- a color from a red-brown scale with a golden tint.
Marengo- first brown with splashes of white, then black with splashes of gray, then gray with splashes of black. The name appeared after the Battle of Marengo in 1800. According to some reports, this was the color of Napoleon's trousers, according to others, local handmade fabrics were mainly dark gray.
Marengo-Claire- light gray. It appeared in the second half of the 19th century.
Marina, Marina- light aqua, from fr. marine, marine.
Maria Louise- blue, the color of calamine (a bright blue mineral).
Marquise Pompadour- a shade of pink. She took an active part in the creation of Sevres porcelain. Rare pink color, obtained as a result of numerous experiments, is named after her - Rose Pompadour.
Massaka- dark red with a blue tint. Occurs in "War and Peace", however, there he is "masaka": "The decanter should have been wearing a masaka velvet dress."
Bearish(aka bear's ear) - a dark brown shade of brown.
Mexican- steel blue.
Mov- mauve, light lilac.
Mordore, mardore is a red-brown color with a golden tint. The name comes from fr. more d "ore, literally "gilded moor". This color was especially fashionable in the first half of the 19th century.
Moscow fire- similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.
Muramous, moire- grassy green.
Murugiy- reddish-brown, the color of fallen decaying foliage.
Garbage- dirty gray.
On-off, on-off- a shade of red, "hot", scarlet. From the French. naca-rat.
Navarino flame with smoke(or smoke with flames) - a dark shade of gray, trendy color cloth, which appeared after the victory of the Russians over the Turks in the Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in Dead Souls. According to one version, Chichikov asks to show cloth "dark, olive or bottle colors with a spark, approaching, so to speak, lingonberries," on the other - he wants to get cloth "more sparkling, not to a bottle, but to lingonberries to get closer." And in the picture in the "Moscow Telegraph" "cloth coat, the color of Navarino smoke" - brown. Flame color obviously denotes lighter shades.
Navarino blue- a shade of bright blue ("Moscow Telegraph", 1828)
Sky in india- blue-blue.
Jade- rich golden yellow, like some types of tea.
Nankovy- dirty yellow, according to the color of cotton fabric once brought from Nanjing.
Nile water- a shade of green. Found at Zola.
Cloudy- the colors of the cloud.
Enlightened- crimson.
Orletsovy- red-cherry-pink, eagle-colored.
Opal- milky white, dull white with yellow or blueness.
Orders of the garter- a shade of blue, "will be the most fashionable this winter" (Library for reading, vol. 19, 1836)
Oreldursovy- dark brown with a reddish tint.
Orleans- dark orange.
Orletsovy- cherry pink, eagle color, red rhodonite.
Aspen- green with a grayish tint.
Ophelia- mauve.
Offit- the color of ophite, greenish marble.
Hunting jacket- gray with pearl tint.
Peacock- bluish purple.
Pale yellow- pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from fr. paille - "straw". According to Dahl, fawn is straw-colored, pale yellowish. White-yellowish, from yellow-white; yellow-whitish; about horses: salt and isabella; about dogs: sexual; about pigeons: clay. Karamzin glorified pale cream.
Panso- dark red, from fr. ponceau.
Paris blue- bright blue.
Paris blue- light blue.
Parisian mud- dirty brown color. It appeared after the public got acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sebastian Mercier "Pictures of Paris".
Parnassian rose- a shade of pink with a purple tint.
A spider plotting a crime- a dark shade of gray. According to other sources - black with red.
Cary- dark, brown.
Pervance- pale blue with a lilac shade, from fr. pervenche, "periwinkle flower".
Perenkovy- peach, pink.
Peridot- light green.
Pearl barley- pearl gray, from fr. perle, pearl, pearls.
Fluent- light yellow. Dahl is yellow-whitish, white-yellow, straw-colored.
Orange- orange with pink.
Pompeian- crimson.
Parrot- green with a bluish tint.
Porphyry, porphyry- purple.
Grays last breath- yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, the eyes of a parrot turn yellow.
Downcast eyes- possibly a shade of pink.
Green- bluish greenish.
Prazemny- the color of prase, light green quartz.
Praprud- the red color of the royal royal dress.
Prunely- a shade of black, named after the color of ripe mulberry berries; at first, the shade was associated with the prunel fabric, which was once only black.
Prune-Moissier- the color of the plum pulp, from fr. "prune moitite", half a plum.
Phuket- (from the spoiled "bouquet"), painted with flowers. At Ostrovsky: "You give me a piece of cloth for a dress and a french scarf."
Crimson- bright, dense or dark scarlet (wormy).
Pusovy- 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 "flea in a swoon", "flea belly" and - they probably lie - the color of "flea in childbirth fever").
Bird of paradise- straw yellow. "In the theater, ladies who dress well, are in Grodenaple dresses, the color of yellow - a bird of paradise" ("Moscow Telegraph", 1826)
Ranked- the same as orange.
Frisky shepherdess- a shade of pink.
Empress vomiting- a shade of brown.
Redry- brown, red, reddish.
Rosemary- lilac-purple.
Pink ash- pale gray color, casting to pink.
Russian skin- "nothing but inexhaustible havana, in a different shade" ("Fashion Shop", 1862).
Ruy Blaz- red-yellow, "in the kind of red copper or red-yellow, in common parlance - pan".
Savoyarsky- a color from a red-brown range with a golden sheen.
Saxon green- color of green Meissen porcelain.
Saxon blue- color of blue Meissen porcelain.
Sankirny- light-bodied (sankir - paint used by artists when depicting a face or an open area of ​​the body).
Sardium- deep red.
Salmon- a shade of pink.
Celadon- grayish green.
Serizovy, serizovy- cherry, (from fr. cerise Cherry).
Serpentine- dark red-brown with a green tint.
Gray- the color of the dove.
Silkovy- blue, cornflower blue.
Blue-scarlet- dark purple.
Blue- an ecclesiastical word meaning "completely blue".
Blue- with a blue tint.
Scarlatny- bright red, from the English. scarlet.
Gloomy- brown shade of gray, dirty gray.
Solovy- Gray. The nightingale is named after this color.
Solferino- bright red. Named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French War in 1859.
Somo- pinkish yellow. Found in War and Peace.
Spartacus- orange-red.
Old rose- dirty pink, unsaturated in color.
Strizovy- bright red.
Dauphin's surprise... He is the color of childish surprise. According to legend, in Paris, they began to dye fabrics in the color of the finished diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her newly born two-hour son, who "disgraced himself" in front of them.
Tango- orange with a brown tint, according to other sources - orange with a red tint. It was first mentioned in the text of the musical performance "Creole Justice", 1897. According to other sources, it was named after the color of the dress, in which at the beginning of the XX century. tango was performed on the stage.
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 options tagashinny, tagash.
Terracotta- brown shade of red brick, rust.
Trocadero- a shade of yellow.
Toucan- a shade of orange that came into fashion in the late 1820s, "Named for the toucan, a Brazilian bird with an orange-tinted neck" (Moscow Telegraph, vol. 30).
Tourmaline- dark crimson, the color of a semi-precious tourmaline stone.
mouth of love- hot pink.
Fernambuck- yellow-red, a paint obtained from fernambuca wood.
Pistachio- dirty green.
Florentine- yellow with a bronze sheen.
Milling cutter, milling cutter- strawberry color, light crimson. According to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language - pink with a lilac shade. From the French. fraise, strawberries.
Freischutz- a shade of red, the color of the hat of the hero of Weber's opera "free shooter".
Fuchsia- deep pink.
Cyanic- a shade of green.
Zinc- zinc color, bluish white.
Wormy- a mixture of crimson and blue, bright crimson.
Chermnoy- sparkling red.
Scabby- the color of comb, yellowish-sandy silk fabric.
Chizhikovy- a shade of yellow ("fashionable color of polished gloves - siskin", "Moscow Telegraph", v. 30, 1829).
Champagne- transparent yellow, champagne color.
Shamb, sham- light reddish brown, from fr. chameau, "camel".
Chamois- light reddish-brown, light yellow, suede color, from fr. chamois, "suede leather".
Shanzhan- color with iridescent shades
Sharlach- bright red, from the name of the paint.
Chartreuse- yellow-green.
Schmalt- blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).
Evelyn- blue.
Ecru- ivory or unbleached linen, grayish white.
Electrician- bright blue, blue with a grayish tint.
Electron- bright blue with green.
Esterhazy- silver gray.
Yubagry (ubagry)- purple, light purple; light blue.
Yuftevy- yellowish light brown. The color of yuft was widespread in the first quarter of the 19th century.
Japanese rose- crushed strawberry color.
Yakhontovy- red, purple or dark blue.

Hmm-hmm .. But one could assume that the color "Mordore" is black. :)

For women

Adelaide- red shade of lilac. According to other sources, dark blue. In the 40-50s of the XIX century. used in the press: it is found in Turgenev ("the color of adelaide, or, as we say, odelloid") and Dostoevsky ("So is this tie of adelaide's color? - Adelaidina-s. - Is there no color of agrafenin?").
Hellfire, Hellfire- lilac shade of red. Or pearlescent red. Or black with red streaks.
Alabaster- pale yellow with a matte shade.
Terrified nymph's thighs- a shade of pink. Perhaps it arose at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a new variety of roses. (There is also the color "nymph's thigh." 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 in 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 - "the thigh of a frightened Masha".
Bismarck-furioso- brown with a red tint.
Blange, or flatbed (from French blanc - white), - a creamy shade of white. Dahl has a solid, flesh color.
Blocky- blue-blue. In Ukrainian, "blakitny" means blue.
Bordeaux wine- red-violet.
"Beard of Abdel-Kader", or "Abdel-Kerim's beard" - a material of white with a black tint and gray tint.
Bristol blue- bright blue.
Lingonberry- once meant green (by the color of the lingonberry leaf).
Brusyany- red, crimson, lingonberry color (arkhang.)
Bulany- gray beige.
Busy- dark blue-gray or gray-blue.
Vaidovy- blue. Vaida was used instead of indigo.
Verdepea- yellow or pink shade of green (similar to peach green).
Merry widow- a shade of pink.
Wine- yellowish red.
Toad in love- greenish gray.
Raven eye- black. It was recommended for fashionable tailcoats. It was possible to achieve this shade using only high-quality wool (low-grade yarn acquired a reddish tint over time).
Waxing- the color of the wax, from yellow-gray to amber-yellow.
Havana- gray with a shade of brown or vice versa.
Haiti- either pink or bright blue.
Heliotrope- colors of heliotrope, dark green with spots of red or yellow.
Hyacinth- hyacinth (stone) color, red or golden orange.
Negro head- since the 18th century, immigrants from Africa have often met on Moscow or St. Petersburg streets, so one of the brown shades got this name.
Pigeon neck- shade of gray.
Pea- gray or dirty yellow.
Hydrangea- light pink.
Grizzly- pearl shade of gray.
Gully- red, the color of ripe rose hips. but there was also a definition of this color as "pink".
Goose droppings (merdua)- yellow-green with brown tint.
Edward's children- a shade of pink. (Children of Edward IV who died in the Tower?)
Wild- Gray.
Dragon green- very dark green.
Gendarme- a shade of blue. The word appeared at the end of the 19th century. thanks to the color of the gendarme uniform.
Burnt coffee
Burnt bread- complex shade of brown.
Giraffe- yellow-brown.
Zhonkilev- the color of the daffodil.
Zekry- dark, light blue, gray.
Scared mouse- pale gray color.
Judah tree- bright pink (Judas tree, or scarlet, flowers are bright pink).
Camelopard- yellowish brown.
Cardinal on the straw- a combination of yellow and red (as the French aristocracy protested against the imprisonment of Cardinal de Rogan in the Bastille in connection with the famous case of the "Queen's necklace").
Carmine, carmine - a shade of bright red.
Carmelite, Capuchin- a pure shade of brown.
Porridge- recommended as blue, and a little later it was presented as bright red. In explanatory dictionaries, this color is often interpreted as tobacco.
Cochineal- bright red, slightly crimson.
Vat- blue, from the name of the plant cube (it is also - indigo).
Partridge eyes- light red.
Labrador- the color of Labrador, feldspar with a beautiful blue tint.
Lavalier- yellowish light brown. Came into fashion, unlike yuft, only in the middle of the 19th century.
Doe(from the name of the animal) - yellowish brown.
Forest chestnuts
London smoke- dark grey.
Lord Byron- dark brown with a reddish tint.
Fainted frogs- light gray-green.
Magician-ghoul- red-pink.
Magenta- bright red, between red and purple. 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, it is possible that this name arose at the same time.
Chafer- a color from a red-brown scale with a golden tint.
Marengo- gray interspersed with black. The name appeared after the Battle of Marengo in 1800. According to some reports, this was the color of Napoleon's trousers, according to others, local handmade fabrics were mainly dark gray.
Marengo-Claire- light gray.
Marquise Pompadour- a 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.
Massaka- dark red with a blue tint. Occurs in "War and Peace", however, there he is "masaka": "The decanter should have been wearing a masaka velvet dress."
Bearish(aka bear's ear) - a dark brown shade of brown.
Mov- mauve.
Mordore, mardore is 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 first half of the 19th century.
Moscow fire- similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.
Muramous, moire- grassy green.
Nakaratovy- a shade of red, "hot".
Navarino flame with smoke(or smoke with flame) - a dark shade of gray, a fashionable color of cloth, which appeared after the victory of the Russians over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in Dead Souls. According to one version, Chichikov asks to show cloth "dark, olive or bottle colors with a spark, approaching, so to speak, to the lingonberry", on the other - he wants to get the cloth "more sparkling, not to the bottle, but to the lingonberry to get closer." And in the picture in the "Moscow Telegraph" "cloth coat, the color of Navarino smoke" - brown. Flame color obviously denotes lighter shades.
Jade- rich golden yellow, like some types of tea.
Cloudy- the colors of the cloud.
Enlightened- crimson.
Opal- milky white, dull white with yellow or blueness.
Oreldursovy- dark brown with a reddish tint.
Aspen- green with a grayish tint.
Peacock- bluish purple.
Pale yellow- pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from fr. paille - "straw". According to Dahl, fawn is straw-colored, pale yellowish. White-yellowish, from yellow-white; yellow-whitish; about horses: salt and isabella; about dogs: sexual; about pigeons: clay. Karamzin glorified pale cream.
Paris blue- bright blue.
Paris blue- light blue.
Parisian mud- dirty brown color. It appeared after the public got acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sebastian Mercier "Pictures of Paris".
Parnassian rose- a shade of pink with a purple tint.
A spider plotting a crime- a dark shade of gray. According to other sources - black with red.
Pervance- pale blue with a lilac shade.
Orange- orange with pink.
Porphyry- purple.
Grays last breath- yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, the eyes of a parrot turn yellow.
Fluent- light yellow. Dahl is yellow-whitish, white-yellow, straw-colored.
Green- bluish greenish.
Prunely- a shade of black, named after the color of ripe mulberry berries; at first, the shade was associated with the prunel fabric, which was once only black.
Crimson- bright, dense or dark scarlet (wormy).
Pusovy- 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 "flea in a swoon", "flea belly" and - they probably lie - the color of "flea in childbirth fever").
Frisky shepherdess- a shade of pink.
Empress vomiting- a shade of brown.
Redry- brown, red, reddish.
Pink ash- pale gray color, casting to pink.
Savoyarsky- a color from a red-brown range with a golden sheen.
Salmon- a shade of pink.
Celadon- grayish green.
Gray- the color of the pigeon, then just blue.
Silkovy- blue, cornflower blue.
Blue-scarlet- dark purple.
Blue- an ecclesiastical word meaning "completely blue".
Blue- with a blue tint.
Gloomy- brown shade of gray, dirty gray.
Solovy- Gray. The nightingale is named after this color.
Solferino- bright red. Named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French Wars in 1859.
Somo- pinkish yellow. Found in War and Peace.
Old rose- dirty pink, unsaturated in color.
Strizovy- bright red.
Dauphin's surprise... He is the color of childish surprise. According to legend, in Paris, they began to dye fabrics in the color of the finished diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her newly born two-hour 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 options tagashinny, tagash.
Terracotta- brown shade of red brick, rust.
Pistachio- dirty green.
Milling cutters- the color of crushed strawberries. According to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language - pink with a lilac shade.
Fuchsia- deep pink.
Zinc- zinc color, bluish white.
Wormy- a mixture of crimson and blue, bright crimson.
Chermnoy- sparkling red.
Sharlach- bright red, from the name of the paint.
Chartreuse- yellow-green.
Schmalt- blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).
Ecru- ivory.
Electrician- aqua, blue, blue with a gray tint.
Electron- bright blue with green.
Yubagry (ubagry)- purple, light purple; light blue.
Yuftevy- yellowish light brown. The color of yuft was widespread in the first quarter of the 19th century.
Yakhontovy- red, purple or dark blue.