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Word
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Definition
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| aeneous
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shining bronze colour
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| albicant
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whitish; becoming white
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| albugineous
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like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
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| amaranthine
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immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
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| argent
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the heraldic colour silver or white
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| atrous
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jet black
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| aubergine
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eggplant; a dark purple colour
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| aurulent
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gold-coloured
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| azuline
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blue
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| azure
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light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
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| badious
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chestnut-coloured
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| beige
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light creamy white-brown
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| brunneous
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dark brown
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| burnet
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dark brown; dark woollen cloth
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| caesious
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bluish or greyish green
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| cardinal
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deep scarlet red colour
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| castaneous
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chestnut-coloured
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| castory
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brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts
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| celadon
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pale green; pale green glazed pottery
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| celeste
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sky blue
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| cerulean
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sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
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| cesious
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bluish-grey
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| chartreuse
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yellow-green colour
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| chlorochrous
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green-coloured
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| chrysochlorous
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greenish-gold
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| cinerious
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ashen; ash-grey
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| cinnabar
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red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
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| citreous
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lemon-coloured; lemony
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| citrine
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dark greenish-yellow
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| claret
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dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine
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| coccineous
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bright red
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| columbine
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of or like a dove; dove-coloured
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| coquelicot
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brilliant red; poppy red
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| corbeau
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blackish green
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| cramoisy
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crimson
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| cretaceous
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of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour
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| croceate
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saffron-coloured
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| cyaneous
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sky blue
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| eau-de-nil
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pale green colour
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| eburnean
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of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
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| erythraean
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reddish colour
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| ferruginous
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of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
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| filemot
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dead-leaf colour; dull brown
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| flammeous
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flame-coloured
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| flavescent
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yellowish or turning yellow
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| fuliginous
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sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot
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| fulvous
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dull yellow; tawny
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| fuscous
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brown; tawny; dingy
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| gamboge
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reddish-yellow colour
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| glaucous
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sea-green; greyish-blue
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| goldenrod
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dark golden yellow
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| greige
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of a grey-beige colour
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| gridelin
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violet-grey
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| griseous
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pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
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| haematic
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blood-coloured
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| heliotrope
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purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
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| hoary
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pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
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| hyacinthine
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of a blue or purple colour
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| ianthine
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violet-coloured
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| ibis
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large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
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| icterine
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yellowish or marked with yellow
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| icteritious
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jaundiced; yellow
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| incarnadine
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carnation-coloured; blood-red
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| indigo
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deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
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| infuscate
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clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
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| isabelline
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greyish yellow
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| jacinthe
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orange colour
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| jessamy
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yellow like a jasmine
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| kermes
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brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
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| khaki
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light brown or tan
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| lateritious
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brick-red
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| leucochroic
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white or pale-coloured
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| liard
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grey; dapple-grey
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| lovat
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grey-green; blue-green
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| lurid
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red-yellow; yellow-brown
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| luteolous
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yellowish
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| luteous
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golden-yellow
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| lutescent
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yellowish
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| madder
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red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
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| magenta
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reddish purple
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| maroon
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brownish crimson
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| mauve
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light bluish purple
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| mazarine
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rich blue or reddish-blue colour
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| melanic
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black; very dark
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| melichrous
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having a honey-like colour
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| meline
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canary-yellow
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| miniaceous
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colour of reddish lead
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| minium
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vermilion; red lead
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| modena
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crimson
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| morel
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dark-coloured horse; blackish colour
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| nacarat
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bright orange-red
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| nankeen
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buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton
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| nigricant
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of a blackish colour
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| nigrine
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black
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| niveous
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snowy; white
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| ochre
|
yellowish or yellow-brown colour
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| ochroleucous
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yellowish white
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| olivaceous
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olive-coloured
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| or
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heraldic colour gold or yellow
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| pavonated
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peacock-blue
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| periwinkle
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a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers
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| perse
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dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour
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| phoeniceous
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bright scarlet-red colour
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| piceous
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like pitch; inflammable; reddish black
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| plumbeous
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leaden; lead-coloured
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| ponceau
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poppy red
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| porphyrous
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purple
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| porraceous
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leek-green
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| prasinous
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leek-green colour
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| primrose
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pale yellow
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| puccoon
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blood-root; dark red colour
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| puce
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brownish-purple; purplish-pink
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| puniceous
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bright or purplish red
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| purpure
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heraldic colour purple
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| purpureal
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purple
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| pyrrhous
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reddish; ruddy
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| rhodopsin
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visual purple
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| rubiginous
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rusty-coloured
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| rubious
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ruby red; rusty
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| rufous
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reddish or brownish-red
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| russet
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reddish brown
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| sable
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black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
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| saffron
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orange-yellow
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| sage
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grey-green colour
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| sanguineous
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bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red
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| sapphire
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deep pure blue
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| sarcoline
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flesh-coloured
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| sepia
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fine brown
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| sinopia
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preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour
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| slate
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dull dark blue-grey
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| smalt
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deep blue
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| smaragdine
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emerald green
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| solferino
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purplish red
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| sorrel
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reddish-brown; light chestnut
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| spadiceous
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chestnut-coloured
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| stammel
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coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red colour
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| stramineous
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strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured
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| suede
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light beige
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| sulphureous
|
bright yellow
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| tan
|
tawny brown
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| taupe
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brownish-grey
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| tawny
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brownish-yellow
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| teal
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greenish-blue
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| terracotta
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reddish-brown
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| testaceous
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of or having a hard shell; brick-red
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| tilleul
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pale yellowish-green
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| titian
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red-gold or reddish-brown
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| topaz
|
dark yellow
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| turquoise
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blue-green
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| ultramarine
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deep blue
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| umber
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brownish red
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| vermeil
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bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver
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| vermilion
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bright red
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| vinaceous
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wine-coloured
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| vinous
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deep red; burgundy
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| violac |
