Colour Terms-颜色词汇英文【DOC精选】.doc

Colour Terms This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of normal colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives; e.g. cardinal = deep scarlet red; russet = reddish brown. Note that most English speakers outside the U.S. spell colour with the added British u rather than the American version color. Dont worry if the colours (or colors) in your universe dont match up with the definitions Ive given for these words, though - Ive been known to have skewed perceptions of reality ... Word Definition aeneous shining bronze colour albicant whitish; becoming white albugineous like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured amaranthine immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour argent the heraldic colour silver or white atrous jet black aubergine eggplant; a dark purple colour aurulent gold-coloured azuline blue azure light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue badious chestnut-coloured beige light creamy white-brown brunneous dark brown burnet dark brown; dark woollen cloth caesious bluish or greyish green cardinal deep scarlet red colour castaneous chestnut-coloured castory brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts celadon pale green; pale green glazed pottery celeste sky blue cerulean sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green cesious bluish-grey chartreuse yellow-green colour chlorochrous green-coloured chrysochlorous greenish-gold cinerious ashen; ash-grey cinnabar red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour citreous lemon-coloured; lemony citrine dark greenish-yellow claret dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine coccineous bright red columbine of or like a dove; dove-coloured coquelicot brilliant red; poppy red corbeau blackish green cramoisy crimson cretaceous of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour croceate saffron-coloured cyaneous sky blue eau-de-