REF: Color 'Dictionaries'
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: REF: Color 'Dictionaries'
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:48:26 EDT
In a message dated 4/19/00 12:09:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, amyr@jump.net
writes:
<< Does anyone have a good reference for exotic colour names? Like cordovan
(not in my dictionary, except for the reference to leather) -- an online
search suggested it's a red with no orange/yellow in it whatsoever... or "sea
lavender", or any number of exotic colour names I encounter in iris
descriptions?>>
There is really not such a comprehensive creature as I think you are
visualizing it. Most of the exotic color names you see in the descriptions
are names from one of several color charts that have found favor over the
years. Most irises introduced since the 'fifties are keyed to the Royal
Horticultural Society color fans and the exotic sounding names are names of
specific color samples on those color fans. Some registeration descriptions
give both the color name and the RHS number of that color. So the
'dictionary' is the color fans and the definition is a color sample.
Anner, in Virginia
ChateauWhitehall@aol.com
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