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